Jorge de Sena

Jorge de Sena was born in Lisbon on 2 November 1919, the only son of a merchant navy captain. A naval cadet at seventeen, dismissed the following year, he became a civil engineer and worked for the state roads, while publishing poems and criticism; married in 1949, he had nine children. Involved in General Delgado's attempted coup, he went into exile in Brazil in 1959 and was naturalised there in 1963, then moved to the United States in 1965 and taught at Wisconsin, then at Santa Barbara, where he died on 4 June 1978. He left more than twenty poetry collections and some forty volumes of essays.

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• NovelSigns of FireSinais de FogoJorge de Sena · 1979Literature