The Algarve poet and essayist Nuno Júdice died this Sunday, March 17, at the age of 74.
Nuno Júdice was born in Mexilhoeira Grande, Portimão, in 1949, and is considered one of the most important Portuguese poets.
In a note published on the website of the Presidency of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa defined the Portuguese poet and essayist as «a decisive author in a time of transition in Portuguese poetry, between the experimental trends of the 1960s and the more everyday tone of the 80s and following”.
«And even in the context of the generation of 70, to which he belonged, he was like no other, with his sometimes long, discursive, meditative verses, the late-romantic tone, the questions about the notion of poem, later the evocative, melancholic or ironic tendency", the President of the Republic also highlighted.
Nuno Júdice graduated in Romance Philology from the Classical University of Lisbon.
He was a professor at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences at Universidade Nova de Lisboa and, in literature, he was honored with more than ten national and foreign awards, since 1975, when he received the Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize.
Among others, he was distinguished with the Review/2000 Prize, from the International Association of Literary Critics, the Fernando Namora/Estoril Sol Prize, in 2004, the Hispanic-American Queen Sofia of Spain Prize, in 2013, the Maison's Argana International Poetry Prize. de la Poésia du Maroc, in 2014, and, that same year, the Poetas del Mundo Latino Victor Sandoval Prize, from Mexico.
In the note published on the Presidency's website, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa also highlighted that «his poetic work and the work of decades in different institutions were a greater contribution to the uniqueness, cosmopolitanism and projection of Portuguese literature».
Nuno Júdice’s latest book of poetry, “Uma Colheita de Silêncios”, was released in March of last year.
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