Manuel Alegre

Manuel Alegre ( born May 12, 1936 in Agueda ) is a Portuguese poet and politician, member of the Partido Socialista, and was an independent candidate to the Portuguese presidential election, 2006. Too, in the presidential election 2011 candidate Alegre again.

While studying law at the University of Coimbra, he became an opponent of António de Oliveira Salazar's dictatorial government. He was drafted into the army and sent to the Azores and later to Angola. There, led his participation in a trial of military rebellion to his arrest. After his time in prison in Luanda, he returned to Coimbra, before he went into exile in 1964. As a student, he played an active role in the Associação Académica de Coimbra, as a member of the line, as an athlete and in theater and poetry.

He spent the next 10 years in Algiers, where he was one of the most important voices of the emitted radio broadcasts to Portugal from Voz de Liberdade / Voice of Freedom. The delivery of his first books was prohibited by the Salazar regime so they circulated in samizdat. Alegre returned back to Portugal in 1974, a week after the start of the Carnation Revolution.

Immediately thereafter, he joined the Socialist Party and was elected to Parliament since 1975 in every election. He is currently one of the Parliament 's vice-president and has a seat on the Advisory Council of State the President.

Several of his poems were set to music, sung among others by José Afonso, Adriano Correia de Oliveira and and played by Carlos Paredes.

One of his poems, Uma flor de verde pinho, won at the 1976 Festival de Canção RTP and represented Portugal at the Euro Vision Song Contest.

In 2004, he lost the election to the party presidency against José Sócrates.

2005 was built in his honor in Coimbra a statue.

On 24 September 2005, he announced that he would run despite the official support of his party for the former president Mário Soares in the presidential elections of 2006. In the elections on 22 September 2006, he received 20.6 % of the votes, the second highest share of the vote on the selected Aníbal Cavaco Silva before and Mário Soares.

Bibliography

• Praça da Canção (1965 )
• O Canto e as Armas (1967 )
• To barco para Ítaca (1971 )
• Letras (1974 )
• Coisa Amar, Coisas do Mar (1976 )
• Novo do Achamento (1979 )
• Atlântico (1981 )
• Babilonia (1983 )
• Chegar Aqui (1984 )
• Aicha Conticha (1984 )
• Obra Poética, Vol I, O Canto e as Armas (1989 )
• Obra Poética, Vol II, Atlântica (1989 )
• Rua de Baixo (1990 )
• A Pink e o Compasso (1991 )
• Com que Pena (1992 )
• Sonetos do Obscuro Quê (1993 )
• Coimbra Nunca Vista ( 1995)
• Trinta Anos do Poesia (1993 )
• As Naus de Verde Pinho (1996 )
• Alentejo e Ninguém (1996 )
• Che (1997)
• Senhora das Tempe Stade (1998)
• Pico (1998)
• Rouxinol do Mundo (1998)
• Obra Poética (1999)
• Livro do português Errante (2001)
• Diálogos = Cristina Valada Manuel Alegre (2001)

• Jornada de África (1989 )
• O Homem do País Azul (1989 )
• Alma ( 1995)
• Contra a Corrente (1997)
• A Terceira Pink (1998)
• Uma Carga de Cavalaria (1999)
• Arte de Marear (2002)
• Cão como Nós (2002)
• Rafael ( 2004)
• O Quadrado (2005)

• Poetry and prose, as well as an interview with the author, trans. Sarita Brandt. TFM, Frankfurt am Main 1998
• Rafael ( novel), trans. Markus Sahr. Leipzig literature Verlag 2007