Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa was born in Lisbon on 13 June 1888; his father died when he was five, and he followed his mother to Durban, in South Africa, where his stepfather was consul, and received an English education there from 1896 to 1905. Returning alone to Lisbon at the age of seventeen, he earned his living as a commercial correspondent, writing letters in English and French, and published only one book of poems in volume form in Portuguese. He invented dozens of authors, the heteronyms, each endowed with a biography, a style and a thought of his own. He died in Lisbon on 30 November 1935, aged forty-seven.

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• DiaryThe Book of DisquietLivro do DesassossegoFernando Pessoa · 1982Literature