Algarve writer Lídia Jorge will remember Algarve writer Nuno Júdice, in a session this Saturday, July 6th, starting at 15:30 pm, at the Manuel Viegas Guerreiro Foundation, in Querença (Loulé).
The meeting will remember the Portuguese essayist, poet, fiction writer and university professor, passed away in March this year and the highlight will be the reading of the essay “Nuno Júdice – A Constelação Perfeita”, by writer Lídia Jorge.
“Nuno Júdice, evocation” also features the presentation of “International Literary Festival of Querença: Catalog 2019”, the book version of the three-day literary meeting in which Nuno Júdice was honored, bringing together at that time a group of researchers, artists and hundreds of people interested in your work.
According to the organization, the presence of Manuela Júdice and her children, the Italian poet and translator Laura Garavaglia and several official entities such as José Apolinário, president of the Algarve Regional Development Coordination Commission, Carlos Silva Gomes, president of the Municipal Assembly of Loulé, Isabel Guerreiro, from the Municipal Assembly of Portimão, Dália Paulo, municipal director of Loulé, among other personalities.
The session dedicated to the Algarve writer continues with readings of Nuno Júdice's poetry by the poet and curator of the exhibition “The image of the Poem: 50 years of Nuno Júdice's literary life”, shown at the Foundation in 2019-20, Ricardo Marques.
The presentation of the book “International Literary Festival of Querença: Catalog 2019”, will be carried out by Patrícia de Jesus Palma. «The researcher was alongside Luís Guerreiro, previous president of the Foundation, in organizing the first edition of FLIQ in 2016 and, after his death, in co-organizing the second edition. In these editions, in 2016, Casimiro de Brito, who passed away in May this year, and, in 2017, Teresa Rita Lopes were honored. Patrícia de Jesus Palma, the book's historian, was also the curator of both exhibitions», says the Foundation.
According to the organization, some of the names signing the catalog have been confirmed. Among them, the former regional director of Culture of the Algarve Adriana Nogueira, the writer Luísa Monteiro, the poet José Manuel Vasconcelos and the author of the photographs in the book Filipe da Palma.
The session ends with the inauguration of the bilingual inscription of “O Poeta”, a poem by Nuno Júdice on a bench in Praça da Fundação, similar to what the Foundation has done in all tributes. Nuno Júdice's poem will be next to that of Gastão Cruz, a writer honored in 2018.
Nuno Júdice graduated in Romance Philology from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon and obtained a PhD from the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the New University of Lisbon (UNL), with a dissertation on Medieval Literature.
He was a secondary school teacher and professor at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences at UNL until his retirement, as an associate professor, in 2015.
Director of magazines such as Tabacaria and Colóquio de Letras, he curated the Literature area of the Portuguese representation at the 49th Frankfurt Book Fair. He was also Cultural Counselor at the Embassy of Portugal (1997-2004) and director of the Camões Institute in Paris. He organized the European Poetry Week, within the scope of Lisbon '94 – European Capital of Culture.
Among the more than 80 published works, his literary debut stands out with “A Noção de Poema” (1972), which would receive the Pen Clube Prize in 1985 and the D. Dinis Prize from Casa de Mateus, in 1990. “Meditação sobre Ruins” was a finalist for the Aristeion European Literature Prize.
Highly awarded, Nuno Júdice was awarded the rank of Officer of the Military Order of Sant'Iago da Espada in 1992 and in 2013 he was elevated to Grand Officer of the same order. In the same year he received the Queen Sofia of Spain Ibero-American Prize.
His work, translated into a further 16 languages, is included in anthologies, literary criticism editions, studies on Literary Theory and Portuguese Literature. In 1993, the anthology on XNUMXth century Portuguese literature, “Voyage dans un siècle de Littérature Portugaise”.
Born on April 29, 1949 in Mexilhoeira Grande, Nuno Júdice died on March 17, 2024 in Lisbon, aged 74.
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