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Manuel Gusmão was born in Évora in 1945. A poet, essayist and university lecturer, he graduated in romanic philology at the Arts Faculty of Lisbon University in 1970, becoming a member of the Faculty’s teaching staff the following year.

Manuel Gusmão was elected representative of the Constituting Assembly and between 1984 and 1987 was a member of the Communications Council. He is a founding member of the French Literature Studies University Group and took part in setting up the Portuguese Association for Comparative Literature . He was also was one of the driving forces behind the magazines Ariane and Dedalus, as well as a member of the editorial board for the magazines O Tempo e o Modo and Letras e Artes . Gusmão has written literary reviews for several other newspapers and literary magazines.

His debut as a poet occurred in 1990, with his book Dois sóis, A Rosa / a arquitectura do mundo. In 1997 he was awarded the Portuguese PEN Club Prize for the best book of poetry published the previous year, Mapas / O Assombro A Sombra. His third book of poetry Teatros do Tempo, published in 2001, was awarded both the Portuguese Writer’s Association Grand Prize and the ‘Luís Miguel Nava’ Foundation Prize. His book A Terceira Mão was awarded the PEN Club prize for poetry in 2008 and the DST Prize in 2009. His poems have appeared in different specialist publications, such as Di Versos and Hablar/Falar de poesia.

In 2005, he was the recipient for the Vergílio Ferreira Award, in regard to the whole of his literary work.

He received the award Eduardo Prado Coelho/APE for the essay “Tatuagem Palimpsesto - da poesia em alguns poetas e poemas”, in 2011, and the PEN Club award for his essay "Finisterra. O Trabalho do Fim: ReCitar a Origem", in 2010.

Furthermore, Gusmão wrote the libretto for the opera by António Pinho Vargas, Os dias levantados , which was staged at the S. Carlos National Theatre, in Lisbon.

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Manuel Gusmão

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Books from Manuel Gusmão

migrações do fogo

Pequeno Tratado das Figuras

A Poesia de Carlos de Oliveira

Teatros do Tempo

Dois Sóis, A Rosa - a Arquitectura do Mundo

Contra Todas as Evidências - Poemas Reunidos I

A Foz em Delta

Finisterra, O Trabalho do Fim: reCitar a Origem

Mapas: O Assombro a Sombra, 1989-1993

A Terceira Mão

A Poesia de Alberto Caeiro (Textos Literários #48)

Contra Todas as Evidências - Poemas Reunidos III

Alguns Poemas