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Jorge Cândido Alves Rodrigues Telles Grilo Raposo de Abreu de Sena (2 November 1919 – 4 June 1978) was a Portuguese-born poet, critic, essayist, novelist, dramatist, translator and university professor who spent the latter portion of his life in the
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Life

Jorge Candido de Sena was the only child of Augusto Raposo de Sena, from
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in the
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, a merchant marine captain, and Maria da Luz Telles Grilo de Sena, from
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. Both families belonged to the middle class, the mother's originally well-to-do but nothing much remained of it by time her child was born; the father's family hailed from military and political offices, the mother's from merchants. Jorge was born in
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. He received his degree in
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from the University of Porto, but published his first poems at age 18. His interests were wide-ranging, including literature, intellectual history, politics, and other areas of the cultural spectrum. His liberal yet strongly independent convictions regarding Portuguese politics during the Salazar dictatorship led eventually to his exile in Brazil in 1959, and subsequently, after the military coup in Brazil in 1964, to the United States, in 1965. He became a professor of literature in Brazil, which also afforded him the opportunity to complete his
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, and that was his profession in the U.S. until he died. He died in
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in 1978. His remains were moved to the Cemitério dos Prazeres in Lisbon on 11 September 2009. Jorge de Sena is one of the most relevant Portuguese intellectuals of the twentieth century. His output in fiction, drama, essays, and poetry is vast. He considered himself primarily a poet. His autobiographical novel ''Sinais de Fogo'' was adapted to film in 1995 by
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, who is also the author of a documentary about Jorge de Sena.


Works

Poetry * ''Perseguição'' (1941) * ''Coroa da Terra'' (1947) * ''Pedra Filosofal'' (1950) * ''As Evidências'' (1955) ''Evidences'' * ''Fidelidade'' (1958) * ''Metamorfoses'' (1963) * ''Arte de Música'' (1968) * ''Peregrinatio ad Loca Infecta'' (1969) * ''Exorcismos'' (1972) * ''Conheço o Sal e Outros Poemas'' (1974) * ''Poesia I'' (1977) * ''Poesia II'' (1978) * ''Poesia III'' (1978) * ''Visão Perpétua'' (1982, póstumo) * ''Dedicácias'' (1999, póstumo) Prose * ''Andanças do Demónio'' (1960) * ''Novas Andanças do Demónio'' (1966) * ''Os Grão-Capitães'' (1976) * ''O Físico Prodigioso'' (1977) ''The Prodigious Physician'' * '' Sinais de Fogo (romance)'' (1979, póstumo) ''Signs of Fire'' * ''Génesis'' (1983, póstumo) Drama * ''O Indesejado'' (1951) * ''Ulisseia Adúltera'' (1952) * ''O Banquete de Dionísos'' (1969) * ''Epimeteu ou o Homem Que Pensava Depois'' (1971) Essays * ''Da Poesia Portuguesa'' (1959) * ''O Poeta é um Fingidor'' (1961) * ''O Reino da Estupidez'' (1961) * ''Uma Canção de Camões'' (1966) * ''Os Sonetos de Camões e o Soneto Quinhentista Peninsular '' (1969) * ''A Estrutura de Os Lusíadas e Outros Estudos Camonianos e de Poesia Peninsular do Século XVI'' (1970) * ''Maquiavel e Outros Estudos'' (1973) * ''Dialécticas Aplicadas da Literatura'' (1978) * ''Fernando Pessoa & Cia. Heterónima'' (1982, póstumo)


Awards

* Prémio Internacional de Poesia Etna-Taormina *
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* Grã-Cruz da Ordem de Sant'Iago da Espada, posthumous * In 1980, the ''Jorge de Sena Center for Portuguese Studies'' was opened at the
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References

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