Eugénio de Andrade

José Fontinhas, who signed Eugénio de Andrade, was born on 19 January 1923 in Póvoa de Atalaia, near Fundão, into a peasant family; his birth certificate gives 1 February. Raised by his mother after his parents' separation, he followed her to Lisbon in 1932, then to Coimbra in 1943; she remains the central figure of his work. He published a first poem at sixteen and a first book at nineteen, which he disowned. A civil servant at the Ministry of Health from 1947, settled in Porto in 1950, he was an inspector there until 1983. Winner of the Camões Prize in 2001, he died in Porto on 13 June 2005.

In the catalogue 1

• PoetryAs Mãos e os FrutosEugénio de Andrade · 1948not translated into EnglishLiterature