Armando da Silva Carvalho

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Armando da Silva Carvalho (born March 14, 1938 in Olho Marinho , Portugal ; † June 1, 2017 in Caldas da Rainha , Portugal) was a Portuguese writer who was mainly active as a poet.

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Carvalho was born in 1938 in a village just outside of Obidos and studied at the University of Lisbon Law . He then worked temporarily as a lawyer, high school teacher and copywriter. He also worked as a journalist, especially for Diario de Noticias and Jornal das Letras . He also hired himself as a critic and translator. In his capacity as a translator, he has translated works by Marguerite Duras , Aime Cesaire , Jean Genet , EE Cummings , Samuel Beckett and Stéphane Mallarmé into Portuguese .

Carvalho also wrote prose, but was best known as a poet; since 1965 he has published more than seventeen volumes of poetry. His favorite subjects were the sea and the world, suffering, sun and love. He also denounced hypocrisy in his work and was an important social critic who did not shy away from sarcasm .

His work has received numerous literary prizes. In 1996 and 2016 he received the Prémio PEN Clube de Poesia, in 2003 the Prémio Fernando Namora. In 2017 he was awarded the Prémio Literário Casino da Póvoa for A sombra do mar .

In 2015 his work “ Lisboa Roteiro sentimental ” was named “ Lisbon. A city guide of feelings ”translated into German.

The author lived alternately in Lisbon and Peniche . He died at the age of 79 from complications from cancer.

Work (selection)

  • O uso eo abuso, 1976
  • Português, 1977
  • O livro de Alexandre Bisexto, 1983
  • Dona Marta, 1984
  • Em nome de mãe, 1994
  • Obra poética, 1998
  • Lisboa-roteiro sentimental, 2000.
    • Lisbon. A city guide of emotions . Translated from the Portuguese by Ilse Pollack . teamart Verlag, Zurich 2015
  • O amante japonês, 2008
  • De Amore, 2012
  • A sombra do mar, 2016

Awards (selection)

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personal data
SURNAME Carvalho, Armando da Silva
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Olho Marinho , Portugal
DATE OF DEATH June 1, 2017
Place of death Caldas da Rainha , Portugal