Fiama Hate Pais Brandão

Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão (born August 15, 1938 in Lisbon ; † January 19, 2007 there ) was a Portuguese writer and Germanist . As a poet , translator , theater critic and playwright, she was one of the most important female voices in Portuguese literature from the 1960s to the 1980s .

Pais Brandão spent her childhood on a vineyard in Carcavelos . At the age of eighteen she came to Lisbon in 1956, where she first attended the Colegio Ingles de St. Julian (Saint Julian's School) and then began and completed a degree in German at the University of Lisbon . From 1992 she lived on the winery in Carcavelos until her death.

Her first book was published in 1958. In the 1950s and 1960s she wrote for various magazines, such as Seara Nova , Cadernos do Meia-Dia and Vetrice.

Professionally she was employed as a theater critic and founded a. a. the theater group Groupo de Teatro Hoje (1974) with.

As a translator, she translated the works of Bertolt Brecht , Novalis , Anton Chekhov , Antonin Artaud and John Updike into Portuguese. Pais Brandão's pieces have so far been performed in Lisbon, Rio de Janeiro and Nancy .

She was married to the writer and Germanist Gastão Cruz .

Works (selection)

• Os chapeus de Chuva. Play, 1960.
• O testament. Play, 1962.
• Barcas Novas. 1966, poetry.
• O texto de Joan Zorro. Poetry, 1974.
• Melomana. Poetry, 1978.
• Area Branca. Poetry, 1979.
• Poe ou o corvo. Play, 1979.
• Cantos do Canto. Poetry, 1995.

Awards (selection)

• Adolfo Casais Monteiro Writer's Prize , 1957.
• Revelaçao Theater Prize, 1961.
• Award of the Portuguese Pen Club for Poetry, 1980.
• D. Dinis Prize, 1996.

Web links

• Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão - biography at lugardaspalavras.no.sapo.pt
• http://www.infopedia.pt/$fiama-hasse-pais-brandao