Eduardo Pitta Explained

Birth Date:9 August 1949
Birth Place:Lourenço Marques, Portuguese Mozambique
Death Place:Torres Vedras, Portugal
Occupation:Novelist, poet, critic
Nationality:Portuguese

Eduardo Pitta (9 August 1949 – 25 July 2023) was a Portuguese poet, fiction writer and essayist.

Bio and work

Born in Lourenço Marques, now Maputo, on 9 August 1949, he lived in Mozambique until 1975. He had published ten books of poetry. A large selection of that corpus of poems was collected in Desobediência, 2011. It is represented in several anthologies of contemporary Portuguese poetry. A significant number of his essays and critical writings have been collected in six volumes. With his trilogy of short-stories Persona, 2000, his writing underwent a tectonic movement. One of these stories, Kalahari, was translated by Alison Aiken and published in Chroma, a Queer Literary Journal, from London. In 2013 he published a memoir, Um Rapaz a Arder. His poetry and prose have appeared in various magazines and anthologies in Portugal, Spain, France, Brasil, Colombia, England, Israel, USA and, in his early years (1968–1975), in Mozambique. In addition to the short story The Stratagem, published in the collective volume, he has published several short stories in the magazine Egoísta. He did literary criticism in the magazines Colóquio-Letras (1987–2018), LER (1990–2006), and Sábado (2011–2022), as well as in the newspapers Diário de Notícias (1996–1998) and Público (2005–2011). Between 1994 and 2006, he was the author of the poetry criticism section O Som & o Sentido for the magazine LER. In the same magazine, between 2008 and 2014, he published chronicles in the column Heterodoxias.

Personal life and death

Pitta married Jorge Neves, his partner from 1972, in 2010. Eduardo Pitta died on 25 July 2023, at the age of 73.[1]

Works

Poetry

YearTitle
1974Sílaba a Sílaba
1979Um Cão de Angústia Progride
1983A Linguagem da Desordem
1984Olhos Calcinados
1988Archote Glaciar
1991Arbítrio
1999Marcas de Água
2004Poesia Escolhida
2011Y si Todo, de Repente? / Spanish anthology
2011Desobediência

Fiction

YearTitle
2000Persona, short stories
2007Cidade Proibida, novel
2021 Devastação, short stories

Essay and critic

YearTitle
2002Comenda de Fogo
2003 Fractura
2004Metal Fundente
2007Intriga em Família
2010Intriga em Família
2014 Pompas Fúnebres

Memoir

YearTitle
2005Os Dias de Veneza
2013Cadernos Italianos
2013Um Rapaz a Arder

Edited works

YearTitle
2008Canções e Outros Poemas, António Botto
2008Fátima, António Botto
2018Poesia, António Botto's complete poetry

References

«A Linguagem da Desordem», review by Eugénio Lisboa, http://coloquio.gulbenkian.pt/bib/sirius.exe/getrec?mfn=4065&_template=singleRecord [archive]

«A marca da excisão na poesia de Eduardo Pitta», review by Ana Luísa Amaral. http://coloquio.gulbenkian.pt/bib/sirius.exe/getrec?mfn=7942&_template=singleRecord [archive]

«Persona», review by Fernando Matos Oliveira, http://coloquio.gulbenkian.pt/bib/sirius.exe/getrec?mfn=8233&_template=singleRecord [archive]

«Pompas Fúnebres», review by Hugo Pinto Santos, http://coloquio.gulbenkian.pt/bib/sirius.exe/getrec?mfn=18876&_template=singleRecord [archive]

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Morreu o poeta e escritor Eduardo Pitta . 25 July 2023 . Sapo Mag . 25 July 2023.