Eduardo Pitta
Eduardo Pitta (9 August 1949 – 25 July 2023) was a Portuguese poet, fiction writer and essayist.
Eduardo Pitta | |
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| Born | 9 August 1949 Lourenço Marques, Portuguese Mozambique |
| Died | 25 July 2023 (aged 73) Torres Vedras, Portugal |
| Occupation | Novelist, poet, critic |
| Nationality | Portuguese |
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Bio and work
Born in Lourenço Marques, now Maputo, on 9 August 1949, he lived in Mozambique until 1975. He had published ten books of poetry. A large selection of that corpus of poems was collected in Desobediência, 2011. It is represented in several anthologies of contemporary Portuguese poetry. A significant number of his essays and critical writings have been collected in six volumes. With his trilogy of short-stories Persona, 2000, his writing underwent a tectonic movement. One of these stories, Kalahari, was translated by Alison Aiken and published in Chroma, a Queer Literary Journal, from London. In 2013 he published a memoir, Um Rapaz a Arder. His poetry and prose have appeared in various magazines and anthologies in Portugal, Spain, France, Brasil, Colombia, England, Israel, USA and, in his early years (1968–1975), in Mozambique. In addition to the short story The Stratagem, published in the collective volume, he has published several short stories in the magazine Egoísta. He did literary criticism in the magazines Colóquio-Letras (1987–2018), LER (1990–2006), and Sábado (2011–2022), as well as in the newspapers Diário de Notícias (1996–1998) and Público (2005–2011). Between 1994 and 2006, he was the author of the poetry criticism section O Som & o Sentido for the magazine LER. In the same magazine, between 2008 and 2014, he published chronicles in the column Heterodoxias.
Personal life and death
Pitta married Jorge Neves, his partner from 1972, in 2010. Eduardo Pitta died on 25 July 2023, at the age of 73.[1]
Works
Poetry
| Year | Title |
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| 1974 | Sílaba a Sílaba |
| 1979 | Um Cão de Angústia Progride |
| 1983 | A Linguagem da Desordem |
| 1984 | Olhos Calcinados |
| 1988 | Archote Glaciar |
| 1991 | Arbítrio |
| 1999 | Marcas de Água |
| 2004 | Poesia Escolhida |
| 2011 | Y si Todo, de Repente? / Spanish anthology |
| 2011 | Desobediência |
Fiction
| Year | Title |
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| 2000 | Persona, short stories |
| 2007 | Cidade Proibida, novel |
| 2021 | Devastação, short stories |
Essay and critic
| Year | Title |
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| 2002 | Comenda de Fogo |
| 2003 | Fractura |
| 2004 | Metal Fundente |
| 2007 | Intriga em Família |
| 2010 | Intriga em Família |
| 2014 | Pompas Fúnebres |
Memoir
| Year | Title |
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| 2005 | Os Dias de Veneza |
| 2013 | Cadernos Italianos |
| 2013 | Um Rapaz a Arder |
Edited works
| Year | Title |
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| 2008 | Canções e Outros Poemas, António Botto |
| 2008 | Fátima, António Botto |
| 2018 | Poesia, António Botto's complete poetry |
References
- "Morreu o poeta e escritor Eduardo Pitta". Sapo Mag. 25 July 2023. Retrieved 25 July 2023.
«A Linguagem da Desordem», review by Eugénio Lisboa, http://coloquio.gulbenkian.pt/bib/sirius.exe/getrec?mfn=4065&_template=singleRecord [archive]
«A marca da excisão na poesia de Eduardo Pitta», review by Ana Luísa Amaral. http://coloquio.gulbenkian.pt/bib/sirius.exe/getrec?mfn=7942&_template=singleRecord [archive]
«Persona», review by Fernando Matos Oliveira, http://coloquio.gulbenkian.pt/bib/sirius.exe/getrec?mfn=8233&_template=singleRecord [archive]
«Pompas Fúnebres», review by Hugo Pinto Santos, http://coloquio.gulbenkian.pt/bib/sirius.exe/getrec?mfn=18876&_template=singleRecord Archived 5 December 2018 at the Wayback Machine [archive]