Herberto Hélder

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Herberto Helder
BornHerberto Helder de Oliveira
(1930-11-23)23 November 1930
Funchal, Madeira, Portugal
Died23 March 2015(2015-03-23) (aged 84)
Cascais, Portugal
OccupationPoet, writer
NationalityPortuguese
Period1958–2015
Notable awardsPrémio P.E.N. Clube Português de Poesia (1983)
Prémio da Crítica da Associação Portuguesa de Críticos Literários (1988)
Pessoa Prize (1994)
SpouseMaria Ludovina Dourado Pimentel
Olga da Conceição Ferreira Lima
ChildrenGisela Ester Pimentel de Oliveira
Daniel Oliveira

Herberto Helder de Oliveira (Funchal, São Pedro, 23 November 1930 – Cascais, 23 March 2015) was a Portuguese poet often considered the most important Portuguese poet of the second half of the 20th century.[1]

Biography

Herberto Helder was born in the Portuguese Atlantic island of Madeira.

Mário Cesariny, Luiz Pacheco, João Vieira and Hélder Macedo. This group revolved around Surrealism
which would inform his early writings. In 1958 his first book, O Amor em Visita was published. In the following years he traveled and lived in France, Holland and Belgium taking menial jobs to survive.

In 1994, he was the winner of the Pessoa Prize, which he refused, saying "Don't tell anyone and give the prize to someone else ..."[3]

Works

Herberto Helder's poetry and fiction is very visual, and has connections with

orphic or visionary poet (that somehow reminds Ezra Pound
).

Considered one of the most important contemporary

academics due to the obscurity of his personality itself (he refused to take literary prizes
or have media exposure) and the complexity of his paradoxal work that has a strange enchantment.

Published works

Poetry

  • O Amor em visita (Love in visit), Lisbon, 1958
  • A Colher na Boca (The spoon in the mouth), Lisbon, 1961
  • Poemacto (Poemact), Lisbon, 1967
  • Lugar (Place), Lisbon, 1962
  • Electronicolirica (Electronicalyrics), Lisbon, 1964
  • Húmus (Humus), Lisbon, 1967
  • Retrato em movimento (Portrait in movement), Lisbon, 1967
  • O bebedor nocturno (The nocturnal drinker), Lisbon, 1968
  • O ofício cantante (The singing craft), Lisbon, 1968
  • Cobra (Snake/Cobra), Lisbon, 1977
  • Photomaton e Vox (Photomaton and Vox), Lisbon, 1979
  • Poesia Toda (All Poetry), Lisbon, 1981
  • A Cabeça entre as mãos (The head between the hands), Lisbon, 1982
  • As Magias (1987)
  • Última Ciência (1988)
  • Do Mundo (1994)
  • Poesia Toda (1º vol. de 1953 a 1966; 2º vol. de 1963 a 1971) (1973)
  • Poesia Toda (1ª ed. em 1981)
  • A Faca Não Corta o Fogo – Súmula & Inédita (2008)
  • Ofício Cantante (2009)
  • Servidões (2013)
  • A Morte sem Mestre (2014)
  • Poemas canhotos (2015) - Finished just before his death, published two months after the author's death.

Fiction

  • Os passos em volta (The steps around), Lisbon, 1963
  • Apresentação do rosto (Presentation of the face), Lisbon, 1968

References

  1. ^ VITÓRIA, ANA (May 7, 2009). "Robô poeta de Leonel Moura lança livro". Jornal de Notícias (in Portuguese). Retrieved July 9, 2011.
  2. ^ "A short biography of Herberto Helder". Citi.pt - Lisbon University (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on September 30, 2014. Retrieved August 20, 2014.
  3. ^ "Quando Clara e António Alçada foram avisar Herberto do Prémio Pessoa". Expresso (in Portuguese). March 24, 2015. Retrieved January 20, 2020.

4. Herberto Helder, in memoriam- Revista Palavra Comum

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