Ana Hatherly (8 May 1929 – 5 August 2015) was a Portuguese academic, poet, visual artist, essayist, film maker, painter and writer. She was considered one of the pioneers of the

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and

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movement in Portugal.

Biography

Hatherly was born in

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, Portugal, in 1929. She obtained a degree in Germanic

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from the

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and a

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from the

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, Berkeley, and was also trained in both film and music. Hatherly was a professor of human and social sciences at

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, where she founded the university's Institute of Portuguese Studies. She utilized film, visual arts, and poetry in her work, which included the

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. During 1958, she started her literary career with the publication of ''Um Ritmo Perdido'', a collection of poems. Her poetry books include ''Um Calculador de Improbabilidades'' (2001), ''O Pavão Negro'' (2003), ''Itinerários'' (2003) and ''Fibrilações'' (2005). Hatherly has published poetry, essays and fiction that has been translated into European languages, Japanese and Chinese. She later became Emeritus Professor and a founding member of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She was also the Chair of the Portuguese

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. Hatherly was interested in the visual aspects of poetry, which led to her successfully exploring visual mediums of art, such as painting and films. Ana Hatherly died in a hospital in

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, on 5 August 2015, at the age of 86. Her funeral was held at the Estrela Basilica in Lisbon, with burial in the Olivais cemetery.

Poetry

*''Um Ritmo Perdido'' (1958) *''As Aparências'' (1959) *''A Dama e o Cavaleiro'' (1960) *''Sigma'' (1965) *''Estruturas Poéticas - Operação 2'' (1967) *''Eros Frenético'' (1968) *''39 Tisanas'' (1969) *''Anagramático'' (1970) *''63 Tisanas: (40-102)'' (1973) *''Poesia: 1958-1978'' (1980) *''Ana Viva e Plurilida'' (1982) *''O Cisne Intacto'' (1983) *''A Cidade das Palavras'' (1988) *''Volúpsia'' (1994) *''351 Tisanas'' (1997) *''Rilkeana'' (1999) *''Um Calculador de Improbabilidades'' (2001) *''O Pavão Negro'' (2003) *''Itinerários'' (2003) *''Fibrilações'' (2005) *''A Idade da Escrita e outros poemas'' (2005) *''463 Tisanas'' (2006) *''A Neo-Penélope'' (2007)

Museum Collections

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*Círculo de Artes Plásticas de Coimbra,

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, Portugal *

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* Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal *Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art,

, Portugal *The Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon, Portugal *

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References

External links

* Calouste Gulbenkian Museum. “Ana Hatherly and the Baroque. In a Garden Made of Ink” Last modified October 25, 2017. https://gulbenkian.pt/museu/en/ana-hatherly-and-the-baroque-in-garden-made-of-ink/ * Elmcip. “Person: Ana Hatherly”, https://elmcip.net/person/ana-hatherly * Luís Alves de Matos. “Ana Hatherly – The Intelligent Hand – Trailer” ''Vimeo'', March 18, 2011. https://vimeo.com/21200605 * Natalie Ferris. “The Intelligent Hand: Ana Hatherly, Asemic Writing, Visualizing the Creative Act” ''Modernism/Modernity'', https://modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/ferris-intelligent-hand-ana-hatherly * PoemsfromthePortuguese. “Ana Hatherly”. http://www.poemsfromtheportuguese.org/Ana_Hatherly 1929 births 2015 deaths 20th-century Portuguese poets Academic staff of NOVA University Lisbon University of California, Berkeley alumni University of Lisbon alumni People from Porto Portuguese women poets 21st-century Portuguese poets 20th-century Portuguese women writers 21st-century Portuguese women writers {{Portugal-poet-stub

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