Eugénio de Andrade

Eugénio de Andrade, José actually Fontinhas (born 19 January 1923 in Póvoa de Atalaia; † 13 June 2005 in Porto ) was a Portuguese poet.

While he lived in the 1930s in Lisbon, he began to write poems and published in 1942 a first book of poems he later rejected but. The book As Mãos e os Frutos earned him the 1946 breakthrough. Since then he has published more books of poetry, prose and translations of Federico García Lorca. From 1950, he lived as a civil servant in Porto.

He was awarded the highest literary award of the Portuguese -speaking countries, the Prémio Camões 2001 awarded.