Eugénio de Andrade
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 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Eugénio de Andrade in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Andrade, Eugénio de |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fontinhas, José (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Portuguese lyric poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 19, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Póvoa de Atalaia, Castelo Branco District , Portugal |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 13, 2005 |
| Place of death | postage |