Ana Hatherly

Ana Hatherly (8 May 1929 – 5 August 2015) was a Portuguese academic, poet, visual artist, essayist, filmmaker, painter, and writer. She was considered one of the pioneers of the experimental poetry and experimental literature movement in Portugal.^[1][2]

Ana Hatherly
Born	Anna Maria de Lourdes Rocha Alves Hatherly (1929-05-08)May 8, 1929 Porto, Portugal
Died	August 5, 2015(2015-08-05) (aged 86) Lisbon, Portugal
Known for	writer, artist

Biography

Hatherly was born in Porto, Portugal, in 1929.^[1] She obtained a degree in Germanic philology from the University of Lisbon and a doctorate in Hispanic studies from the University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, and was also trained in both film and music.^[1] Hatherly was a professor of human and social sciences at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, where she founded the university's Institute of Portuguese Studies.^[1] She utilized film, visual arts, and poetry in her work, which included the avant-garde.^[1]

In 1958, she started her literary career with the publication of Um Ritmo Perdido, a collection of poems. Her poetry books include Um Calculador de Improbabilidades (2001), O Pavão Negro (2003), Itinerários (2003), and Fibrilações (2005). Hatherly has published poetry, essays, and fiction that have been translated into European languages, Japanese and Chinese.^[3][4] She later became Emeritus Professor and a founding member of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She was also the Chair of the Portuguese PEN Club.^[4]

Hatherly was interested in the visual aspects of poetry, which led to her successfully exploring visual mediums of art, such as painting and films.

Ana Hatherly died in a hospital in Lisbon, on 5 August 2015, at the age of 86. Her funeral was held at the Estrela Basilica in Lisbon, with burial in the Olivais cemetery.^[1]

Poetry

• Um Ritmo Perdido (1958)
• As Aparências (1959)
• A Dama e o Cavaleiro (1960)
• Sigma (1965)
• Estruturas Poéticas - Operação 2 (1967)
• Eros Frenético (1968)
• 39 Tisanas (1969)
• Anagramático (1970)
• 63 Tisanas: (40-102) (1973)
• Poesia: 1958-1978 (1980)
• Ana Viva e Plurilida (1982)
• O Cisne Intacto (1983)
• A Cidade das Palavras (1988)
• Volúpsia (1994)
• 351 Tisanas (1997)
• Rilkeana (1999)
• Um Calculador de Improbabilidades (2001)
• O Pavão Negro (2003)
• Itinerários (2003)
• Fibrilações (2005)
• A Idade da Escrita e outros poemas (2005)
• 463 Tisanas (2006)
• A Neo-Penélope (2007)

Museum collections

• Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, Portugal^[5]
• Círculo de Artes Plásticas de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal^[6]
• Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia^[7]
• Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal^[6]
• Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal^[6]
• The Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon, Portugal^[6]
• National Museum of Women in the Arts^[8]