Fernando Pessoa

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Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa (Portuguese:

[fɨɾˈnɐ̃du pɨˈsoɐ]; 13 June 1888 – 30 November
1935) was a Portuguese poet, writer, literary
critic, translator, publisher, and philosopher,
described as one of the most significant literary
figures of the 20th century and one of the
greatest poets in the Portuguese language. He
also wrote in and translated from English and
French.

Fernando Pessoa

Portrait of Pessoa, 1914

Born Fernando António

Nogueira Pessoa
13 June 1888
Lisbon, Portugal

Died 30 November 1935

(aged 47)
Lisbon, Portugal

Pen name Alberto Caeiro, Álvaro

de Campos, Ricardo
Reis, Bernardo
Soares [pt], etc.

Occupation Poet · writer · translator

· philosopher

Language Portuguese, English,

French

Nationality Portuguese

Citizenship Portuguese

Alma mater University of Lisbon

Period 1912–1935

Genre Poetry, essay, fiction

Literary movement Modernism

Notable works Mensagem (1934)

The Book of Disquiet
(1982)

Notable awards Queen Victoria Prize

(1903)
Antero de Quental
Award (1934)

Partner Ophelia Queiroz

(girlfriend)

Signature

Pessoa was a prolific writer, and not only under

his own name, for he created approximately
seventy-five others, of which three stand out:
Alberto Caeiro, Álvaro de Campos, and Ricardo
Reis. He did not call them pseudonyms because
he felt that this did not capture their true
independent intellectual life and instead called
them heteronyms. These imaginary figures
sometimes held unpopular or extreme views.

Early life

Lisbon revisited

Pessoa the flâneur

Literature and occultism

Writing a lifetime

The triumphant day

Heteronyms

Summaries of selected
works

Works

See also

Notes

References

Further reading

External links

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