Orlando da Costa (writer)

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Orlando da Costa (born July 1929 in Lourenço Marques , today Maputo, Mozambique , † January 27, 2006 in Lisbon , Portugal ) was a Portuguese writer and communist politician of Indian descent. As a writer, he was primarily active as a novelist and poet. He is the father of top Portuguese politician António Costa , who has been Prime Minister of Portugal since 2015 .

Live and act

Orlando da Costa was a Goa Catholic and came from a Brahmin family who had converted to Catholicism . Until he was eighteen he lived in Goa , which at that time still belonged to Portuguese India , and came to Lisbon in 1947, where he studied history and philosophy at the University of Lisbon.

In 1951 he published his first book. He supported the presidential candidate Norton de Matos , was considered a militant member of the Portuguese Communist Party and was arrested three times between 1950 and 1953. He was interned in Caxias State Prison for around five months . One of his books of poetry sold more than ten thousand times, but was taken off the market and banned by the PIDE secret police .

Until recently he was Vice President of the Portuguese Writers' Union . He was also the father of the politician António Costa and Ricardo Costa, a journalist.

Orlando da Costa died in Lisbon on January 27, 2006 at the age of 76. He was laid out in the Basílica da Estrela in Lisbon and the chairman of the Communist Party of Portugal, Jerónimo de Sousa , also attended his funeral . A poem by Costa was recited. The body was cremated and buried in the Alto de São João cemetery in Lisbon.

Work (selection)

  • A estrada ea Voz, 1951, poetry.
  • Os velhos sem Fronteira, 1953, poetry.
  • Sete odes do canto comum, 1955, poetry.
  • O signe da Ira, 1961, novel.
  • Podem Chamar-me Euridice, 1964, poetry.
  • Canto Civil, 1976, poetry.
  • Os netos de Norton, 1994, novel.
  • O ultimo olhar de Manu Miranda, 2000, novel.

Awards (selection)

  • Prémio Ricardo Malheiras, 1961.
  • Prémio Literário Fundação Eça de Queiroz, 1994.

swell

  • www.avantar.eu/2009/10/25/club-dos-poetas-imortais-orlando-da-costa
  • www.dn.pt/inuncio.aspx?content_id=635004
  • www.avante.pt/pt/1679/nacional/12808
  • www.cmjornal.xl.pt/cultura/detalhe/morreu-escritor-orlando-costa
personal data
SURNAME Costa, Orlando there
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese writer and communist politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Lourenço Marques , today Maputo, Mozambique
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 2006
Place of death Lisbon , Portugal