Branquinho da Fonseca

António José Branquinho da Fonseca (born May 4, 1905 in Laceiras, Pala municipality, Mortágua , Portugal , † May 7, 1974 in Cascais , Portugal) was a Portuguese writer. He worked as a poet, narrator, novelist, playwright and translator and is considered one of the most important representatives of the second literary modernism in Portugal.

Life

Branquinho da Fonseca was born in the Mortágua district as the son of the writer Tomás da Fonseca and his wife Clotilde de Madeira Branquinho. He spent his school days in Lisbon and then began studying law in Coimbra in 1921 . In 1925 he founded the literary magazine Triptico with Vitorino Nemésio and others . His first book, the collection of poems Poemas , was published in 1926. In 1927 he was co-founder and co-director of the literary magazine " Presença ", which was then important for the whole of Portugal and which is considered to represent the second literary modernity in Portugal. His colleagues there were José Régio and João Gaspar Simões . More magazines followed, the best known being that with Miguel Torga , Sinal , 1930.

From 1935/1936 he was employed at the civil court in Marvão , the next year in Nazaré in the same form of court. In 1941 he held an office in the state shipping administration, which he held until 1943. He then moved to the Conde de Castro library in Guimarães , where he worked as a curator . From 1958, until his retirement, he was responsible for the development of a mobile library at the Gulbenkian Foundation and was thus the first director of mobile libraries in Portugal, which was supposed to make literature accessible to the rural population as a “mobile library”.

As a playwright, he had used the pseudonym Antonio Madeira when he published his plays in the Presença . His most famous work in Portugal is the volume of short stories O Barão (The Baron), which was translated into Norwegian and filmed in 2011 under the direction of Edgar Pêra . His main translators were Stendhal and Georges Duhamel into Portuguese. The Prémio Branquinho da Fonseca literary prize for adolescents and young adults is named after him.

He was married to Maria Manuel Lima Jorge and had two children, Maria and Tomás.

Branquinho da Fonseca died in Cascais a few days after the Carnation Revolution , on May 7, 1974.

Work (selection)

• Poemas , 1926, poetry.
• Posição de Guerra , 1928, play.
• Mar Coalhado , 1932, poetry.
• Teatro I , 1939, play.
• O Barão (The Baron), 1942, collection of short stories.
• Porta de Minerva , (Novellas), 1947.
• Mar Santo , 1952, short stories.

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• Major works of Spanish and Portuguese literature, Kinder-Verlag, 1995.