The ''Diário de Lisboa'' was a daily evening newspaper published in the Portuguese capital of
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 ...
between 1921 and 1990.
History
The newspaper was founded on 7 April 1921 by Joaquim Manso, who ran it until he died in 1956. He was succeeded by Norberto Lopes between 1956 and 1967. It was published for the last time in 1990, when Mário Mesquita was the director. The company was owned by ''Renascença Gráfica'' and was edited in Rua Luz Soriano (Luz Soriano Street) in Lisbon. Since 2009, 500 copies of one annual issue have been printed in order to protect the rights to the ''Diário de Lisboa'' title.
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Contributors
Published throughout the lifetime of the ''
Estado Novo'' dictatorship, when censorship was common, the ''Diário de Lisboa'' took more risks than most other papers and provided an outlet for some views considered controversial by the regime. It stands out, in the context of the Portuguese press at the time, for the independence of its opinions and for its literary features that gave space to modernist writers and artists. In 1934, it started to publish a "Literary Supplement", which continued throughout the 1930s. Among its contributors were the poet
Fernando Pessoa
Fernando António Nogueira de Seabra Pessoa (; ; 13 June 1888 – 30 November 1935) was a Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, and publisher. He has been described as one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th c ...
, the poet and novelist
Fernando Assis Pacheco, the novelist
José Saramago
José de Sousa Saramago (; 16 November 1922 – 18 June 2010) was a Portuguese people, Portuguese writer. He was the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony ith which ...
, the novelist and playwright Luís de Sttau Monteiro, the university professor and author Eduardo Prado Coelho">Luís de Sttau Monteiro">ith which ...
, the novelist and playwright Luís de Sttau Monteiro, the university professor and author Eduardo Prado Coelho, the journalist Fernando Dacosta, and the film director and actor João César Monteiro. Feminist views were represented by Maria Teresa Horta and Manuela Porto, among others. Features were included on the modern art of artists such as
and the paper also promoted their exhibitions. It also featured regular articles by
, a Spanish writer.