First International
Afro-Luso-Brazilian Sessions
Dedicated to
José Saramago
December 5, 6 and 7
Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of UNAM
Burghard Baltrusch is the International José Saramago Chair at the University of Vigo where he teaches Lusophone Studies, and coordinates the research group BiFeGa and the Interuniversitary Doctoral Programme in Literary Studies. He is also a member of the research group Intermedialidades at the Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa of the University of Porto, as well as of the Interuniversity Centre for Research on Atlantic Landscapes and Cultures (CISPAC). His research focusses on Fernando Pessoa, José Saramago, contemporary poetry and translation theory. Currently, he coordinates the research project “Contemporary Poetry and Politics – Social Conflicts and Poetic Dialogisms” (POEPOLIT II, PID2019-105709RB-I00). He has been president of the Internacional Association of Galician Studies (AIEG) and coordinated several doctoral programmes and international conferences. Some of his published or edited volumes are Bewußtsein und Erzählungen der Moderne im Werk Fernando Pessoas (1997), Kritisches Lexikon der Romanischen Gegenwartsliteraturen (5 vols., with W.-D. Lange et al., 1999), Non-Lyric Discourses in Contemporary Poetry (with I. Lourido, 2012), Lupe Gómez: libre e estranxeira - Estudos e traducións (2013), “O que transformou o mundo é a necessidade e não a utopia” - Estudos sobre utopia e ficção em José Saramago (2014) and Poesia e Política na Actualidade – Aproximações teóricas e práticas (2021).
For more publications please visi
t https://uvigo.academia.edu/BurghardBaltrusch.
ORCID: 0000-0001-6330-4907
SCOPUS ID: 38160912500
Ciência ID: 881C-6D98-DAD7
Paulo José Miranda was born in 1965, in the village of Paio Pires. He graduated in Philosophy and, in 1997, published his first book of poetry, A Voz Que Nos Trai, with which he won the first Teixeira de Pascoaes Prize. In 1999, and already residing in Istanbul, Turkey, he also became the first winner of the José Saramago Prize, with the novel Natureza Morta. Natureza Morta is part of a triptych around artistic creation and 19th century Portuguese cultural figures: Um Prego No Coração (1998), invoking Cesário Verde, Natureza Morta (1998), invoking João Domingos Bomtempo and Vício (2001), invoking Antero from Quental. He lived in Istanbul between 1999 and 2004. During this period, in 2001, he spent a season in Macau to write the novel O Mal. In 2005, he leaves for Brazil where he lives until 2015, in several cities: Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Curitiba, Florianópolis, Porto Alegre and Fazenda Rio Grande. In 2015, he received the Authors Prize, from the Portuguese Society of Authors, for the poetry book Exercícios de Humano (2014). In the same year, received the Ciranda prize with the novel A Máquina do Mundo (2014). He returned to Portugal that year. In 2016, publishes a new book of poetry, Auto-Retratos, finalist for the Correntes d’Escrita Award 2017. In 2019 he publishes the biography of Manoel de Oliveira, A Morte Não É Prioritária. In 2020 he publishes the novel Aaron Klein. In 2022 he publishes a small book of poetry in honor of João Paulo Cotrim, the recently deceased editor of Abysmo. He has more than two dozen books published. He has been a member of the PEN Club de Portugal since 1997. He was part of the board of President Teresa Martins Marques, between the years 2019-2022.
Since 7 July 2022 he has been a member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences, Class of Letters, 1st Section (Literature and Literary Studies). In nowadays he lives in Azores, São Miguel.
Carlos Reis is a renowned Portuguese literary critic and theorist who also lectures at the University of Coimbra. He is a member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences, of the European Academy, and, since 2009, of the Spanish Royal Academy of Language as a representative of Portuguese. He has held numerous notable posts at institutions involved with Portuguese culture, among these the most remarkable are the directorship of Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal and the Associação Internacional de Lusitanistas. He has been a guest lecturer at various universities in Brazil, Spain, and the United States. Furthermore, he has led relevant literary research projects; some worthy of mention are the forum for academic discussion “Figuras de Ficção” comprised of a rich website featuring a variety of literary figures as well as a colloquium, a critical edition of the works of Eça de Queiroz, and above all a Critical History of Portuguese Literature (História Crítica da Literatura Portuguesa) of which eight volumes have been published.
As a critic, he specializes in nineteenth-century Portuguese literature, with a particular focus on the work of Eça de Queiroz, though he has also turned his attention to authors such as Camilo Castelo Branco and Almeida Garrett. His interest in José Samarago’s narrative is also a notable element in his career that is of particular significance for these academic sessions.
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