Manuel Gusmão

Manuel Mendes Nobre de Gusmão (11 December 1945 – 9 November 2023) was a Portuguese academic, poet, essayist, translator, and politician of the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP).^[1]

Manuel Gusmão
Member of the Assembly of the Republic of Portugal
In office 3 June 1976 – 2 January 1980
Member of the Constituent Assembly of Portugal
In office 2 June 1975 – 2 April 1976
Personal details
Born	Manuel Mendes Nobre de Gusmão (1945-12-11)11 December 1945 Évora, Portugal
Died	9 November 2023(2023-11-09) (aged 77) Lisbon, Portugal
Political party	PCP
Children	José Gusmão
Education	University of Lisbon
Occupation	Professor Poet

Biography

Born in Évora on 11 December 1945, Gusmão earned a degree in Roman philology from the University of Lisbon with a thesis titled Poética de Francis Ponge. He then became a professor of Portuguese literature, French literature, and literary theory at his alma mater. He was a member of the International Comparative Literature Association and a founding member of the Associação Portuguesa de Literatura Comparada [pt]. He founded the journals Ariane and Dedalus and became editorial coordinator of Vértice [pt] in 1988.^[2]

Gusmão was the winner of the 2004 Prémio D. Dinis [pt], the Premio Vergílio Ferreira in 2005, and the Grande Prémio de Literatura DST [pt] in 2009.^[3]

A longtime activist within the PCP, which was banned during the Estado Novo regime, Gusmão served in the Constituent Assembly from 1975 to 1976 and in the Assembly of the Republic from 1976 to 1980.^[4]

Manuel Gusmão died in Lisbon on 9 November 2023, at the age of 77.^[5]

Works

Essays

• A Poesia de Carlos de Oliveira (1981)
• A Poesia de Alberto Caeiro (1986)

Poems

• Dois Sois, A Rosa - A Arquitectura do Mundo (1990/2001)
• Mapas: o Assombro e a Sombra (1996)
• Teatros do Tempo (1994-2000) (2001)
• Os Dias Levantados (2002)
• Migrações do Fogo (2004)
• Mapas o Assombro a Sombra (2005)
• A Terceira Mão (2008)
• Pequeno Tratado das Figuras (2013)