Eugénio de Andrade

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Eugénio de Andrade , actually José Fontinhas (born January 19, 1923 in Póvoa de Atalaia , † June 13, 2005 in Porto ) was an important Portuguese poet .

He began writing poetry while living in Lisbon in the 1930s and published a first volume of poetry in 1942, which he later discarded. The book As Mãos e os Frutos brought him his breakthrough in 1946. Since then he has published other volumes of poetry, prose and translations by Federico García Lorca . From 1950 he lived as a civil servant in Porto .

In 2001 he was awarded the highest literary prize in the Portuguese-speaking region, the Prémio Camões .

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