Eduardo Pitta

Eduardo Pitta ( born August 9, 1949 in Lourenço Marques, now Maputo, Mozambique) is a Portuguese writer who has also worked as a poet, essayist, short story writer, novelist, columnist and literary critic.

Life

Pitta was born in present-day Maputo and came with his family - like hundreds of thousands of other Portuguese also - after the country's independence to Portugal. Since 1967, he wrote and published regularly, first in 1967-1975 appearing in Mozambique newspapers and magazines of the Portuguese community.

To date, a total of some 20 books of the author have been published. In addition many texts in national and international anthologies and magazines in Portugal, Spain, France, Brazil, USA and Italy. He was also regularly involved participants in literature conferences in Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Greece and Colombia.

As editor, he is responsible for the completion of the entire work of António Botto.

For several Portuguese newspapers and magazines, he was a columnist and literary critic, so for Coloquio - Letras (1987 to 2005), LER (1990 to 2005), the newspaper Diário de Notícias (1996 to 1998) and for Público (2005 to 2011).

Main themes of his work are the anti-colonialism and homosexuality. In dealing with the subject of homosexuality, he has written several essays on homophilic figures, so Al Berto, WH Auden, Mario Cesariny, Fernando Pessoa, Walt Whitman and Oscar Wilde.

The author is openly homosexual. In 2010 he married his lifelong partner. Was friends with the late author Al Berto. His work has not yet been published in German.

Work (selection)

  • Sílaba a silaba, 1974 Poetry.
  • To Cão de Angustia PROGRIDE, 1979, lyric.
  • A Linguagem because Desordem, 1983, lyric.
  • Olhos Calcinados, 1984, lyric.
  • Archote Glaciar, 1988, lyric.
  • Arbitrio, 1991, poetry.
  • Marcas de Água, 1999, Poetry ( 1971-1990 ).
  • Persona, 2000, short stories, short stories.
  • Comenda de Fogo, 2002 essays.
  • Fractura, 2003 essays.
  • Metal Fund duck, 2004, Essays.
  • Intriga em Família, 2007 essays.
  • Cidade proibida ( Forbidden City ), 2007, Roman.
  • Aula de Poesia, 2010 essays.
  • Desobediência, 2011 Poetry.
  • Cadernos Italianos, 2013, Daily.
  • To Rapaz a Arder, Autobiography, 2013.

Swell

  • Official web site
  • Blog Da Literatura
  • Bookstore WOOK
  • Author
  • Poetry
  • Journalist
  • Essay
  • Critic
  • Homosexuality in art
  • Homosexuality in literature
  • Portuguese
  • Born in 1949
  • Man
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