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Portuguese Writers
This is a list of Portuguese writers, ordered alphabetically by surname. A * João Aguiar (1943–2010) *Manuel Alegre (born 1936), poet *Afonso de Albuquerque (1453–1515) *Ana Luísa Amaral (born 1956) *Eugénio de Andrade pseudonym of José Fontinhas (1923–2005), poet * Maria Archer (1899–1982) * Carlos Lobo de Ávila (1860-1895) B *António Gonçalves de Bandarra (1500–1556) * Ana de Sousa Baptista (born 1971) *João de Barros (1496–1570), historian *Ruy Belo (1933–1978) * Al Berto pseudonym of Alberto Raposo Pidwell Tavares (1948–1997), poet *Sara Beirão (1880–1974) * Francisco Manuel de Melo Breyner (1837–1903) *Agustina Bessa-Luís (1922–2019) *Abel Botelho (1855–1917) *António Botto (1892–1959) * Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão (1938–2007) *Raul Brandão (1867–1930) * Lurdes Breda (born 1970) C * António Cabral (1931–2007) *Luís de Camões (1527–1580) *Miguel Esteves Cardoso (born 1955) *Fernão Lopes de Castanheda (1500–1559) *Camilo Cas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portuguese People
The Portuguese people () are a Romance nation and ethnic group indigenous to Portugal who share a common culture, ancestry and language. The Portuguese people's heritage largely derives from the pre-Celts, Proto-Celts (Lusitanians, Conii) and Celts (Gallaecians, Turduli and Celtici), who were Romanized after the conquest of the region by the ancient Romans. A small number of male lineages descend from Germanic tribes who arrived after the Roman period as ruling elites, including the Suebi, Buri, Hasdingi Vandals, Visigoths with the highest incidence occurring in northern and central Portugal. The pastoral Caucasus' Alans left small traces in a few central-southern areas. Finally, the Umayyad conquest of Iberia also left Jewish, Moorish and Saqaliba genetic contributions, particularly in the south of the country. The Roman Republic conquered the Iberian Peninsula during the 2nd and 1st centuries B.C. from the extensive maritime empire of Carthage during the series o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
António Botto
António Botto ( Concavada, Portugal, August 17, 1897 – Rio de Janeiro, March 16, 1959) was a Portuguese aesthete and lyricist poet. Early life António Thomaz Botto was born 17 August 1897 at 8:00 a.m. to Maria Pires Agudo and Francisco Thomaz Botto, in Concavada, near Abrantes, the couple's second son. His father earned his living as a boatman in the Tagus. In 1902 the family moved tRua da Adiça, 22, 3rd floor in the Alfama quarter in Lisbon (where a third and last son would be born). Botto grew up in the typical and popular atmosphere of that neighbourhood. Very old shabby houses, stretched up in steepy narrow streets, the ambiance was one of poverty and somewhat promiscuous. Small shops, small taverns where fado was sung late in the night. The dirty streets crowded with workers, housewives shopping, vendors, beggars, tramps, kids playing, pimps, prostitutes and sailors, which would deeply influence his work. Botto was poorly educated and since youth he took to a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaspar Correia
Gaspar Correia (1492 – c. 1563 in Goa) was a Portuguese historian considered a Portuguese Polybius. He authored ''Lendas da Índia'' (Legends of India), one of the earliest and most important works about Portuguese rule in Asia. Miguel is a given name and surname, the Portuguese and Spanish form of the Hebrew name Michael. It may refer to: Places *Pedro Miguel, a parish in the municipality of Horta and the island of Faial in the Azores Islands * São Miguel (disamb ... shortly after Correia's death and copies circulated only among authorised persons. One author claims, without citing any source, that the manuscript was published in 12 volumes in 1556 but, if it existed, no trace remains. His family retained the manuscript of the original, which was printed in 1858 (first part) and 1864 (second part) by the Royal Academy of Sciences of Lisbon. He died around 1563 in Goa, Portuguese India. References Bibliography * CORREIA, Gaspar. ''Lendas da Índia'' (introduction a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Públia Hortênsia De Castro
Públia Hortênsia de Castro (1548–1595) was a scholar and humanist in the court of Catherine of Austria, Queen of Portugal. Born in 1548 in Vila Viçosa, Portugal, she was named for Hortensia, the famous Roman orator and daughter of Quintus Hortensius, suggesting that her parents intended for her to become a well-educated woman. She evidently studied Greek and Latin, and by the time she was seventeen she was engaged in public debates on Aristotle. There are stories that, dressed as a boy and chaperoned by her brother, she attended the University of Coimbra, in Lisbon, but historians consider this unlikely. Nonetheless, she is known to have composed psalms in Latin, although they are now lost, and she was well enough admired by King Philip II that he granted her a pension for life. She eventually left the court and joined an Augustine convent. She died in Évora in 1595. Namesakes In 1978, Lisbon honored de Castro by giving her name to a street in the area of Carnide Carni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferreira De Castro
José Maria Ferreira de Castro (24 May 1898 – 29 June 1974) was a Portuguese writer and journalist. Ferreira de Castro had a long career in journalism, and considered his fiction writing to be an extension of his documentary reporting; in that regard, he is considered to be one of the fathers of contemporary Portuguese social-realist (or neorealist) fiction, a forerunner of socially-committed literature about the rural and working classes later further established by Alves Redol, and more than once a nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Ferreira de Castro was part of the group of noted public intellectuals that were oppositionists to the authoritarian '' Estado Novo'' regime; despite his participation in almost every pacific action directed against the regime, his national and international recognition as an acclaimed novelist meant he was never a victim of excessively violent repression, such as prison, torture or loss of political rights. Life The eldest son of José ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugénio De Castro
Eugénio de Castro e Almeida (March 4, 1869 in Coimbra, Portugal – August 17, 1944) was a Portugal, Portuguese writing, writer and a poetry, poet. He was a professor at the Faculty of Letters at the University of Coimbra and attended Escola Normal Superior in the same university. His contribution in poetry was divided in two sections: the first symbolic and the second where the author used new rhymes, metric (Alexandrine verses) and richer vocabulary. The author also written about Ancient classics. References Portuguese poets Portuguese male poets 1869 births 1944 deaths People from Coimbra {{Portugal-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
António Feliciano De Castilho
António Feliciano de Castilho, 1st Viscount of Castilho (28 January 180018 June 1875) was a Portuguese writer. Life Castilho was born in Lisbon. He lost his sight at the age of six, but the devotion of his brother Augusto, and aided by a retentive memory, enabled him to go through his school and university course with success; and he acquired an almost complete mastery of the Latin language and literature. His first work of importance, the ''Cartas de Echo e Narciso'' (1821), belongs to the pseudo-classical school in which he had been brought up, but his romantic leanings became apparent in the ''Primavera'' (1822) and in ''Amor e Melancholia'' (1823), two volumes of honeyed and prolix bucolic poetry. In the poetic legends ''A noite do Castello'' (1836) and ''Ciúmes do bardo'' (1838) Castilho appeared as a full-blown Romanticist. These books exhibit the defects and qualities of all his work, in which lack of ideas and of creative imagination and an atmosphere of artificiality ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camilo Castelo Branco
Camilo Castelo Branco, 1st Viscount of Correia Botelho (; 16 March 1825 – 1 June 1890), was a prolific Portuguese writer of the 19th century, having produced over 260 books (mainly novels, plays and essays). His writing is considered original in that it combines the dramatic and sentimental spirit of Romanticism with a highly personal combination of sarcasm, bitterness and dark humour. He is also celebrated for his peculiar wit and anecdotal character, as well as for his turbulent (and ultimately tragical) life. His writing, which is centred in the local and the picturesque and is in a general sense affiliated with the Romantic tradition, is often regarded in contrast to that of Eça de Queiroz – a cosmopolitan dandy and a fervorous proponent of Realism, who was Camilo's literary contemporary in spite of being 20 years younger. In this ''tension'' between Camilo and Eça – often dubbed by critics ''the literary guerrilla'' – many have interpreted a synthesis of the two g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernão Lopes De Castanheda
Fernão Lopes de Castanheda (Santarém, c. 1500 – 1559 in Coimbra) was a Portuguese people, Portuguese historian in the early Renaissance. His "History of the discovery and conquest of India", full of geographic and ethnographic objective information, was widely translated throughout Europe. Life Castanheda was the natural son of a royal officer, who held the post of judge in Goa. In 1528, he accompanied his father to Portuguese India and to the Moluccas. There he remained ten years, from 1528 to 1538, during which he gathered as much information as he could about the discovery and conquest of India by the Portuguese, in order to write a book on the subject. In 1538, he returned to Portugal, having collected from written and oral sources material for his great historical work. In serious economic difficulties, he settled in Coimbra, where he held a modest post of bedel in the University of Coimbra. Works Eight of the ten books of Castanheda's "História do descobrimento ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miguel Esteves Cardoso
Miguel Vicente Esteves Cardoso (born 25 July 1955) is a Portuguese writer, translator, critic and journalist. He is a well-known monarchist. Early life Cardoso was born in an upper middle class family in Lisbon. His father, Joaquim Carlos Esteves Cardoso (1920 – 4 July 1994), was Portuguese and his mother (m. 1954), Hazel Diana Smith, was English. He had a good education and the advantage of a bilingual and bicultural upbringing, helping him to develop an outsider's detachment from the culture of his birth country. In 1979, he graduated from Manchester University in political studies and four years later, in 1983, he received his doctorate in Political Philosophy. While there he made contact with some of the new wave bands of Factory Records including Joy Division and New Order, and arranged for the recording of the Durutti Column album ''Amigos em Portugal'' as well as providing its cover art. He married for the first time on 21 January 1981 and shortly after became the fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luís De Camões
Luís Vaz de Camões (; sometimes rendered in English as Camoens or Camoëns, ; c. 1524 or 1525 – 10 June 1580) is considered Portugal's and the Portuguese language's greatest poet. His mastery of verse has been compared to that of Shakespeare, Milton, Vondel, Homer, Virgil and Dante. He wrote a considerable amount of lyrical poetry and drama but is best remembered for his epic work '' Os Lusíadas'' (''The Lusiads''). His collection of poetry ''The Parnasum of Luís de Camões'' was lost during his life. The influence of his masterpiece ''Os Lusíadas'' is so profound that Portuguese is sometimes called the "language of Camões". The day of his death, 10 June OS, is Portugal's national day. Life Origins and youth Much of the information about Luís de Camões' biography raises doubts and, probably, much of what circulates about him is nothing more than the typical folklore that is formed around a famous figure. Only a few dates are documented that guide its trajectory. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
António Cabral
António Joaquim Magalhães Cabral (30 April 1931 – 23 October 2007) was a Portuguese poet, fictionist, playwright, ethnographer and essayist. Bibliography Poetry *1951 - Sonhos do meu Anjo *1956 - O Mar e as Águias *1958 - Falo-vos da Montanha *1960 - A Flor e as Palavras (1º Prémio de Manuscritos do SNI) *1963 - Poemas Durienses *1967 - Os Homens Cantam a Nordeste *1971 - Quando o Silêncio Reverdece *1976 - A Hierarquia dos Na(ba)bos *1977 - Emigração Clandestina *1979 - Aqui, Douro *1983 - Entre o Azul e a Circunstância *1993 - Novos Poemas Durienses *1996 - Festa de Natal e Reis: poesia, música, teatro *1997 - Bodas Selvagens *1999 - Antologia dos Poemas Durienses *2000 - O Peso da Luz nas Coisas *2003 - Ouve-se um Rumor e Entre Quem É *2003 - Contos de Natal para Crianças *2007 - O Rio Que Perdeu as Margens *2007 - A Tentação de Santo Antão (posthumous publication) Fiction *1983 - Festa em Setembro; Jogos Populares em Sabrosa; Pedro e Isabel *1990 - Me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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