Manuel Mendes Nobre de Gusmão (11 December 1945 – 9 November 2023) was a Portuguese academic, poet, essayist, translator, and politician of the

Portuguese Communist Party The Portuguese Communist Party ( pt, Partido Comunista Português, , PCP) is a communist, Marxist–Leninist political party in Portugal based upon democratic centralism. The party also considers itself patriotic and internationalist,Portugue ...

(PCP).

Biography

Born in

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on 11 December 1945, Gusmão earned a degree in Roman philology from the

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with a thesis titled ''Poética de Francis Ponge''. He then became a professor of Portuguese literature, French literature, and literary theory at his alma mater. He was a member of the

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and a founding member of the . He founded the journals ''Ariane'' and ''Dedalus'' and became editorial coordinator of ' in 1988. Gusmão was the winner of the 2004 , the Premio

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in 2005, and the in 2009. A longtime activist within the PCP, which was banned during the '' Estado Novo'' regime, Gusmão served in the

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from 1975 to 1976 and in the Assembly of the Republic from 1976 to 1980. Manuel Gusmão died in

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on 9 November 2023, at the age of 77.

Works

Essays

*''A Poesia de Carlos de Oliveira'' (1981) *''A Poesia de Alberto Caeiro'' (1986)

Poems

*''Dois Sois, A Rosa - A Arquitectura do Mundo'' (1990/2001) *''Mapas: o Assombro e a Sombra'' (1996) *''Teatros do Tempo (1994-2000)'' (2001) *''Os Dias Levantados'' (2002) *''Migrações do Fogo'' (2004) *''Mapas o Assombro a Sombra'' (2005) *''A Terceira Mão'' (2008) *''Pequeno Tratado das Figuras'' (2013)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gusmao, Manuel 1945 births 2023 deaths 20th-century Portuguese educators 20th-century Portuguese poets 21st-century Portuguese poets Members of the 1st Assembly of the Republic (Portugal) Members of the Constituent Assembly (Portugal) People from Évora District Portuguese Communist Party politicians University of Lisbon alumni