Manuel Mendes Nobre de Gusmão (11 December 1945 – 9 November 2023) was a Portuguese academic, poet, essayist, translator, and politician of the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP).[1]
Manuel Gusmão | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Assembly of the Republic of Portugal | |
| In office 3 June 1976 – 2 January 1980 | |
| Member of the Constituent Assembly of Portugal | |
| In office 2 June 1975 – 2 April 1976 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Manuel Mendes Nobre de Gusmão 11 December 1945 Évora, Portugal |
| Died | 9 November 2023 (aged 77) Lisbon, Portugal |
| Political party | PCP |
| Children | José Gusmão |
| Education | University of Lisbon |
| Occupation | Professor Poet |
Biography
editBorn in Évora on 11 December 1945, Gusmão earned a degree in Roman philology from the University of Lisbon with a thesis titled Poética de Francis Ponge. He then became a professor of Portuguese literature, French literature, and literary theory at his alma mater. He was a member of the International Comparative Literature Association and a founding member of the Associação Portuguesa de Literatura Comparada. He founded the journals Ariane and Dedalus and became editorial coordinator of Vértice in 1988.[2]
Gusmão was the winner of the 2004 Prémio D. Dinis, the Premio Vergílio Ferreira in 2005, and the Grande Prémio de Literatura DST in 2009.[3]
A longtime activist within the PCP, which was banned during the Estado Novo regime, Gusmão served in the Constituent Assembly from 1975 to 1976 and in the Assembly of the Republic from 1976 to 1980.[4]
Manuel Gusmão died in Lisbon on 9 November 2023, at the age of 77.[5]
Works
editEssays
edit- A Poesia de Carlos de Oliveira (1981)
- A Poesia de Alberto Caeiro (1986)
Poems
edit- Dois Sois, A Rosa - A Arquitectura do Mundo (1990/2001)
- Mapas: o Assombro e a Sombra (1996)
- Teatros do Tempo (1994-2000) (2001)
- Os Dias Levantados (2002)
- Migrações do Fogo (2004)
- Mapas o Assombro a Sombra (2005)
- A Terceira Mão (2008)
- Pequeno Tratado das Figuras (2013)
References
edit- ^ "Manuel Gusmão: "Excelente cronista e excelente poeta"". Público (in Portuguese). 12 May 2011. Retrieved 12 November 2023.
- ^ "Manuel Gusmão". Artistas Unidos (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 22 May 2014.
- ^ "Manuel Gusmão vence Prémio DST de Literatura de 2009". Diário de Notícias (in Portuguese). 4 December 2009. Archived from the original on 29 July 2012. Retrieved 12 November 2023.
- ^ "Manuel Mendes Nobre de Gusmão". Assembly of the Republic (in Portuguese).
- ^ "Morreu o poeta e ensaísta Manuel Gusmão". CNN Portugal (in Portuguese). 9 November 2023. Retrieved 12 November 2023.