Vitorino Nemésio

Vitorino Nemésio
Bust of the author Vitorino Nemésio
Born	Vitorino Nemésio Mendes Pinheiro da Silva December 19, 1901 Praia da Vitória, Terceira
Died	February 20, 1978(1978-02-20) (aged 76) Lisbon
Resting place	Lisbon
Occupation	Poet
Language	Portuguese
Nationality	Portuguese
Ethnicity	Portuguese
Citizenship	Portugal
Education	Post-Secondary
Alma mater	University of Coimbra, University of Lisbon
Period	1921-25, 1930-34
Genre	Fiction, Romance, Poetry, Biography
Subject	Existensialism, Revolutionary Humanism, Neo-Realism
Literary movement	Republican
Notable works	Canto Matinal (1916), PaçO de Milhafre (1924), Varanda de Pilatos (1926), Sob Os Signos de Agora (1932), A Mocidade de Herculano (1934), RelaçõEs Francesas do Romantismo PortuguêS (1936), O Bicho Harmonioso (1938), Eu, Comovido a Oeste (1940), Mau Tempo No Canal (1944), Ondas Médias (1945), Festa Redonda (1950), Nem Toda a Noite a Vida (1953), O Segredo de Ouro Preto (1954), O PãO e a Culpa (1955), Corsário das Ilhas (1956), Conhecimento de Poesia (1958), O Verbo e a Morte (1959), Canto de Véspera (1966), Jornal do Observador (1974), Sapateia Açoriana, Andamento HolandêS e Outros Poemas (1976)
Notable awards	Ricardo Malheiros Literary Prize (1944), National Literary Prize (1965), Montaigne Prize (1974)
Children	Georgina (Novembro 1926), Jorge (April 1929), Manuel (July 1930) and Ana Paula (At the end of 1931).

Vitorino Nemésio Mendes Pinheiro da Silva (Praia da Vitória, December 19, 1901 – Lisbon, February 20, 1978) was a poet, author and intellectual from Terceira, Azores, best known for his novel Mau Tempo No Canal, as well as being a professor in the Faculty of Letters at the University of Lisbon and member of the Academy of Sciences of Lisbon. He was a grandparent of Maria Luísa Nemésio, the wife of Fernando Nobre.

Vitorino Nemesio was the son of Vitorino Gomes da Silva and Maria da Glória Mendes Pinheiro, and born in Praia da Vitória, on the island of Terceira (1901).

His early education did not reflect the academic career that he would have; he encountered many problems as a student and was expelled from secondary school, repeating his fifth year of studies. Of his time in the secondary school in Angra do Heroísmo, Nemésio indicated his fondness for history classes, and attributed this interest to Manuel António Ferreira Deusdado (his history teacher), who introduced him to the social sciences. At 16 years of age, for the first time, Nemésio travelled to the district capital of Horta, to complete his entry exams for the National School: he was barely able to accomplish a passing mark. He did complete the entry exams in the General Course on July 16, 1918. His stayed in Horta from May to August 1918. On August 13, the newspaper O Telégrafo (although disparagingly referring to Nemésio as a "provincial") published a notice about the young author's first book of poetry, Canto Matinal, which was sent to the editor Manuel Emídio (it would later be published in 1916). While at the school, he contributed to Eco Académico: Semanário dos Alunos do Liceu de Angra and helped to found the magazine Estrela d'Alva: Revista Literária Ilustrada e Noticiosa while completing his studies in Angra. Although relatively young, Nemesio had already developed republican ideals, having participated in literary, republican, and anarchist-unionist meetings while living in Angra. He was influenced primarily by his friend, Jaime Brasil, five-years his senior (the first intellectual mentor he knew), as well as others, such as the lawyer Luís da Silva Ribeiro and the author-librarian, Gervásio Lima.