Américo Durão
Américo de Oliveira Durão (born October 28, 1894 in Couço , † 1969 in Lisbon ) was a Portuguese poet and playwright .
Life
Durão attended the Lyceum in Leiria , where the maternal family came from, and studied law at the University of Lisbon . He was a teacher at the Escolas Primárias Superiores, consul in Bilbao and Trieste and head of the secretariat of the Câmara Municipal of Guimarães. Later he was head of the advertising and tourism department at the Câmara Municipal of Lisbon.
In 1914 he published his first book Penumbras and in 1921, while still a student, the volume Tântalo , with which he established his reputation as a poet. His work Ave de Rapina is considered one of the best rural dramas in Portuguese theater.
He discovered the poet Florbela Espanca , with whom he was close friends since they were studying together.
literature
- António Manuel Couto Viana (Ed.): Breve Dicionário de Autores Portugueses. Verbo, Lisbon 1985.
- Eugénio Lisboa ( Ed .): Dicionário Cronológico de Autores Portugueses. Volume 3: 1867-1899. Publicações Europa-América, Mem Martins 1994, ISBN 972-1-03185-2 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Durão, America |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Durão, Américo de Oliveira |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Portuguese lyric poet and playwright |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 28, 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Couço |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1969 |
| Place of death | Lisbon |