Yvette Centeno

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Yvette Kace Centeno (born February 7, 1940 in Lisbon ) is a Portuguese writer and Germanist . She is one of the most important living writers in her country, alongside Lídia Jorge and Agustina Bessa-Luís, and is considered one of the leading intellectuals in Portugal. She is also a researcher of the life and work of Fernando Pessoa . She is also one of the most important contemporary playwrights in her country and works as a poet , essayist , novelist and translator .

Life

Yvette Centeno was born in Lisbon in 1940 as the daughter of a Portuguese and a Polish woman. She began studying German at the Literary Faculty of the 1963 Lisbon University and wrote her first book in 1961, the volume of poetry Opus I .

She has been a passionate theater lover since her youth, which shows her rich dramatic oeuvre and makes her one of the leading contemporary playwrights in her country.

As a translator, she has made the works of Stendhal , Goethe , Shakespeare , Bertolt Brecht and Paul Celan known in Portugal.

Since 1983 she has been Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature at the New University of Lisbon .

She made a particular contribution to researching the work of Fernando Pessoa. She wrote a few essays on this subject and made the writings on Judaism and Freemasonry found in the estate known to a wide audience as an editor in Portugal and Germany. In the German documentary Fernando Pessoa and Portugal. In the labyrinth of the self she speaks next to Alberto Pimenta and João Gaspar Simões about the life and work of the author.

She lives in Lisbon, is married and has four sons. She writes about literature and art in several Portuguese-language blogs.

Works

Poetry

  • Opus I, Poetry, 1961.
  • O barco na cidade, poetry, 1965.
  • Sinais, poetry, 1977.

Dramas (plays)

  • Teatro Aberto, drama, 1974.
  • Saudades do Paraiso, Drama, 1980.
  • Sera Deus o Dr. Freud ?, drama, 1995.

Essay writing

  • Fernando Pessoa: Tempo, Solidao, Hermetismo, 1978.
  • A viagem de " Os Lusiades " - simbolo e mito, 1981.
  • Fernando Pessoa: O Amor, a morte, a iniciacao, 1984.

Translations into German

  • In the garden of the nut trees , Roman, 2004, Erata-Verlag.
  • Beginning , Roman, 2006, Erata-Verlag.
  • Erdnah , poems, 2006, Erata-Verlag.
  • Fernando Pessoa: Jews and Freemasonry (editor), 2006, Erata-Verlag.
  • Nigredo , in: Nunes, Ângela Maria Pereira et al. From white to black , Leipziger Literaturverlag, 2017

Awards

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  1. ^ Yvette K. Centeno in the genealogical database geneall

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personal data
SURNAME Centeno, Yvette
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Centeno, Yvette Kace
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Lisbon