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Mundo Literário
''Mundo literário: semanário de crítica e informação literária, científica e artística'' (Portuguese for "World Literature: Literary, Scientific and Artistic Criticism and News Weekly") was a Portuguese review published in Lisbon from 1946 to 1948. The seminary's weekly director-general was Jaime Cortesão Casimiro and its literary head was Adolfo Casais Monteiro, they formed a directive body to the journal, Emil Andersen and Luís de Sousa Rebelo. Its creation occurs of a context of lack of freedom of the press, being in the sights of censorship. 53 issues were made. Writers Writers included: * Eugénio de Andrade * Matilde Rosa Araújo * Vitorino Magalhães Godinho * Alexandre O'Neill * Alves Redol * José Régio * Jorge de Sena * Fernando Namora * Mário Sacramento * António Branquinho da Fonseca * Aguinaldo Fonseca, Aguinaldo Brito Fonseca * Diogo de Macedo * Murilo Mendes * Carlos Drummond de Andrade * António Sérgio * Manuela Porto * António Pedro * Júlio Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe. Featuring Cabo da Roca, the westernmost point in continental Europe, Portugal borders Spain to its north and east, with which it shares Portugal-Spain border, the longest uninterrupted border in the European Union; to the south and the west is the North Atlantic Ocean; and to the west and southwest lie the Macaronesia, Macaronesian archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira, which are the two Autonomous Regions of Portugal, autonomous regions of Portugal. Lisbon is the Capital city, capital and List of largest cities in Portugal, largest city, followed by Porto, which is the only other Metropolitan areas in Portugal, metropolitan area. The western Iberian Peninsula has been continuously inhabited since Prehistoric Iberia, prehistoric times, with the earliest signs of Human settlement, settlement dating to 5500 BC. Celts, Celtic and List of the Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
António Branquinho Da Fonseca
António José Branquinho da Fonseca (4 May 1905 – 7 May 1974) was a Portuguese writer. Some of his early works were published under the pseudonym António Madeira. He is best remembered as the first editor of ''Presença'', "one of the most important, if not the most important, Portuguese literary reviews of the twentieth century", and for the novella '' The Baron''. Biography He was the son of the writer Tomás da Fonseca. He studied law at the University of Coimbra where he met José Régio and João Gaspar Simões. In 1923–1924 he co-founded the literary review ''Tríptico'' which lasted until 1925. In 1927 he and Gaspar Simões founded the literary review ''Presença'' and he served as its first editor. He left ''Presença'' in 1930 to edit the review journal ''Sinal'' (1930) with fellow ''Presença'' outcast Miguel Torga Miguel Torga (), pseudonym of Adolfo Correia da Rocha ( São Martinho de Anta, Sabrosa, Vila Real district, 12 August 1907 – Coimbra, 17 Janua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
1946 Establishments In Portugal
1946 (Roman numerals, MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1946th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 946th year of the 2nd millennium, the 46th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1940s decade. Events January * January 6 – The 1946 North Vietnamese parliamentary election, first general election ever in Vietnam is held. * January 7 – The Allies of World War II recognize the Austrian republic with its 1937 borders, and divide the country into four Allied-occupied Austria, occupation zones. * January 10 ** The first meeting of the United Nations is held, at Methodist Central Hall Westminster in London. ** ''Project Diana'' bounces radar waves off the Moon, measuring the exact distance between the Earth and the Moon, and proves that communication is possible between Earth and outer space, effectively opening the Space Age. * January 11 – Enver Hoxha declares the People's Republic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Sebastião Da Gama
Sebastião is Portuguese for ''Sebastian''. This name may refer to: People * Sebastião (given name) Places * Sebastião Barros, a town in the state of Piauí, Brazil * Sebastião Laranjeiras, a city in the state of Bahia, Brazil * Sebastião Leal Sebastião Leal is a municipality in the state of Piauí in the Northeast region of Brazil Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in South America. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies ..., a town in the state of Piauí, Brazil Other * São Sebastião, Portuguese for Saint Sebastian {{dab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Mário Dionísio
Mário Dionísio de Assis Monteiro (July 16, 1916, in Lisbon, Portugal – November 17, 1993, in Lisbon, Portugal) was a Portuguese critic, writer, painter, and professor. A multifaceted personality – poet, novelist, essayist, critic, painter – Mário Dionísio had a significant civic and cultural impact on 20th-century Portugal, particularly in the realms of literature and art. Biography Mário Dionísio de Assis Monteiro was born on July 16, 1916, in Lisbon. He was the son of Eurico Monteiro, a merchant and militia officer in the Military Administration, and Julieta Goulart Parreira Monteiro, a homemaker who had completed advanced studies in Piano. He is the father of Eduarda Dionísio. He graduated in Romance Philology in 1940 from the Faculty of Letters at the University of Lisbon. He worked as a high school and secondary school teacher and later as a lecturer at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon, following the April 25th Revolution. Mário Dioní ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Abel Manta
Abel Manta (12 October 1888 in Gouveia – 9 August 1982 in Lisbon Lisbon ( ; ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 567,131, as of 2023, within its administrative limits and 3,028,000 within the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, metropolis, as of 2025. Lisbon is mainlan ...) was an architect, painter, designer, and Portuguese cartoonist. Between 1908 and 1915 Manta attended the Lisbon School of Fine Arts, completing the course in painting, having won the third Prize of the National Society of Fine Arts. In 1919 he went to Paris participating in the "Salon de la Société Nationale" among other galleries, having also attended the course of engraving with William Schlumberger. While there he met his wife, the Portuguese artist Clementina Carneiro de Moura. He made several trips to study in Europe. References External links Abel Manta work 1888 births 1982 deaths People from Gouveia, Portugal Portuguese architects 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Júlio Pomar
Júlio Artur da Silva Pomar, GOL, GCM (10 January 1926 – 22 May 2018) was a Portuguese painter and visual artist. He was considered by leading art historian José-Augusto França as the greatest Portuguese painter of his generation. Early life and career (1940s and 1950s) Pomar first studied at the Escola Secundária Artística António Arroio, in his native Lisbon. He entered the Superior School of Fine Arts of Lisbon in 1942. The same year, he organised his first exhibition with a group of former colleagues of the António Arroio School, which included painters like Fernando de Azevedo and Marcelino Vespeira. Amongst the notable visitors was Almada Negreiros, who bought Pomar the now-lost painting "Saltimbancos". In 1944, he moved to the Superior School of Fine Arts of Porto, leaving two years later after a disciplinary process. During this time, he joined a group of artists called the Independents. He participated in their 1944 exhibitions in Porto and Coimbra, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
António Pedro
António Pedro da Costa (9 December 1909, in Portuguese Cape Verde, Santiago, Praia – 17 August 1966, in Caminha, Moledo, Portugal) was a Portuguese painter, potter, journalist and writer. Biography He was born to a prominent colonial family from the Cape Verde Islands, son of José Maria da Costa (b. Lisbon, c. 1870) and wife Elizabeth Savage de Paula Rosa. However, his maternal grandmother was Irish and English, and he cited this influence of the "Celtic spirit" as an influence in his work. In addition because his family spoke English, and sent their children to English schools, he was able to work as a journalist with the BBC in London between 1944 and 1945. He moved to Portugal when he was four. Later he attended Liceu Pedro Nunes in Lisbon for two years and afterwards attended Nuno Álvares Institute, Companhia de Jesus in A Guarda, Galicia, Spain, his sixth year was in Santarém, Coimbra's lyceum during his seventh year where he wrote the journal ''O Bicho''. He att ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Manuela Porto
Manuela Porto (24 April 19087 July 1950) was a Portuguese actor, writer, journalist, theatre critic, and translator, as well as a leading campaigner for women's rights and an opponent of the '' Estado Novo'' dictatorship in Portugal. As a translator she introduced previously untranslated women writers to Portuguese readers, including Louisa May Alcott, Anne Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Virginia Woolf. She is also credited with popularising the work of the Portuguese poet, Fernando Pessoa. Early life Manuela Porto was born on 24 April 1908 in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon, where she lived all her life. Her father was César Porto, a republican, journalist, writer, playwright, essayist, translator and teacher. He was Principal of ''Escola Oficina No. 1'', a school located in Lisbon, which, at the beginning of the 20th century, followed a different approach to teaching that aimed at the multidisciplinary preparation of students and the development of their critical spirit. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
António Sérgio
António Sérgio de Sousa (September 3, 1883 – February 12, 1969) was an influential educationist, philosopher, journalist, sociologist and essayist from Portugal. Background He was the only son and representative of António Sérgio de Sousa (October 22, 1842 – Lisbon, Portugal August 18, 1906) - only son and representative of the 98th Governor-General of Portuguese India, 64th Governor of Angola, 59th Governor of Macau and 1st Viscount of Sérgio de Sousa -, and second wife (m. India, Bombay, Church of Our Lady of the Glory of Mazagão, October 22, 1879) Ana Maria Henriques de Brito ( Pondá, Novas Conquistas, Goa, July 23, 1855 – Lisbon, Portugal, January 23, 1948). Sérgio was an important intellectual, thinker, and Portuguese politician. Born in Damão, India he was influenced by the contact with different cultures. He lived many years in Africa, becoming a cosmopolitan character because, following a family tradition, he studied at the Military College, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Carlos Drummond De Andrade
Carlos Drummond de Andrade () (October 31, 1902 – August 17, 1987) was a Brazilian poet and writer, considered by some as the greatest Brazilian poet of all time. He has become something of a national cultural symbol in Brazil, where his widely influential poem "Canção Amiga" ("Friendly Song") has been featured on the 50- cruzado novo bill. Biography Drummond was born in Itabira, a mining village in Minas Gerais in the southeastern region of Brazil. His parents were farmers belonging to old Brazilian families of mainly Portuguese origin. He went to a school of pharmacy in Belo Horizonte, but never worked as a pharmacist after graduation. He worked as a civil servant for most of his life, eventually becoming director of the history for the National Historical and Artistic Heritage Service of Brazil. Drummond drifted towards communism at the start of World War II and took up the editorship of the Brazilian Communist Party's official newspaper, ''Tribuna Popular'', but lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
