Vasco Graça Moura

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Vasco Navarro da Graça Moura (born January 3, 1942 in Foz do Douro , Porto district , † April 27, 2014 in Lisbon ) was a Portuguese politician , writer and translator . As a writer, he was primarily a poet and essayist.

Life

Vasco Graça Moura studied law at the Law Faculty of the University of Lisbon and graduated in 1966. He practiced as a lawyer from 1966 to 1983. From 1963 he also worked as a writer.

In 1975 he was State Secretary twice in the provisional governments, as State Secretary for Social Security and later State Secretary for the Portuguese Abroad, in 1978 he was briefly head of RTP , the national television broadcaster of Portugal, and from 1979 to 1989 he was head of the state printing company Casa da Moeda and from 1989 to 1995 Commissioner General for the Age of Discovery. From 1999 to 2009 he sat for the PSD in the European Parliament . The politician and writer lived in Lisbon.

Graça Moura was also important as a translator. He translated the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri into Portuguese and all the sonnets of Shakespeare , further, among others , Rainer Maria Rilke , Walter Benjamin , Gottfried Benn , Federico García Lorca , Seamus Heaney and Hans Magnus Enzensberger . His works have been translated into Italian, French, Swedish and Spanish. He was a member of the Académie Européene de Poésie , Luxembourg . Graça Moura died of cancer in April 2014 at the age of 72.

Work (selection)

Poetry

  • Modo mundado, 1963
  • Semana Inglesa, 1965
  • A sombra das figuras, 1985
  • Sonetos familiares, 1995
  • Variaçoes metalicos, 2004

Essays

  • Luis de Camoes: Alguns Desafino, 1980
  • Camoes ea Divina Proporçao, 1985

Novels

  • A morte de Ninguem, 1998
  • Meu Amor, era de noite, 2001

Awards (selection)

  • Premio Pessoa , 1995.
  • Premio de Poesia do PEN-Clube Portugal, 1997
  • Gold Medal of the City of Florence for his translation of the Divina Comedia, 1997
  • Grande Premio de Poesia da Assoçiao Portuguesa de Escritores, 1999

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Morreu Vasco Graça Moura, to intelectual renascentista no século XXI
personal data
SURNAME Graça Moura, Vasco
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Graça Moura, Vasco Navarro da (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese politician, MEP, writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Foz do Douro , Porto District
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 2014
Place of death Lisbon