Eugénio de Andrade
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Portrait of Eugénio de Andrade (2010)
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| Born | José Fontinhas 19 January 1923. Póvoa de Atalaia, Fundão |
| Died | 13 June 2005 (aged 82) Porto, Portugal |
| Pen name | Eugénio de Andrade |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Nationality | Portuguese |
| Citizenship | Portuguese |
| Education | Liceu Passos Manuel Escola Técnica Machado de Castro |
| Period | 1936-2005 |
| Genre | Lyricism |
| Notable awards | Camões Prize |
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| Fundação Eugénio de Andrade | |
Eugénio de Andrade was the pseudonym of GOSE, GCM José Fontinhas (19 January 1923 – 13 June 2005),Portuguese poet. He is revered as one of the leading names in contemporary Portuguese poetry.
Eugénio de Andrade was born in Póvoa de Atalaia, Concelho do Fundão, Beira Baixa, on 19 January 1923. After his parents' marriage broke apart, he moved to Lisbon in 1933 and attended the Lyceum Passos Manuel and the Escola Técnica Machado de Castro where he wrote his first poems three years later. In 1938, he sent some of those poems to António Botto who encouraged him to keep writing, so much thathe had his first book Narciso published in 1939 under his real name which would be dropped sometime later.
In 1943, Eugénio de Andrade moved to Coimbra and then to Tavira the following year, cities where he did the military service finished back in Coimbra in 1944. The same year he strengthened his friendship with Afonso Duarte, Eduardo Lourenço, Joaquim Namorado, Carlos de Oliveira, and Miguel Torga, friends he made during his time in the army. Having worked as administrative inspector for the Ministry of Health from 1947, a position held for 35 years, he finally settled in Porto in 1950 where he lived for more than four decades until he moved to the building of the former Eugénio de Andrade Foundation in Foz do Douro.
During the years that followed the poet Eugénio de Andrade traveled extensively, having been invited to take part in various events where befriended many personalities of Portuguese and foreign culture such as Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, José Luís Cano, Luis Cernuda, Mário Cesariny, Ángel Crespo, Herberto Helder, João Miguel Fernandes Jorge, Óscar Lopes, Agustina Bessa Luís, Joaquim Manuel Magalhães, Jaime Montestrela, Vitorino Nemésio, Teixeira de Pascoaes, Jorge de Sena, Joel Serrão, Marguerite Yourcenar, and many others. Despite his national and international prestige he always lived apart from the so-called social, literary or bohemian life, having himself justified his rare public appearances due to "this weakness of the heart called friendship".
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