CARLOS LOURES Translated
by John D. Godinho
Carlos
is born in Lisbon, in the Parish of Santa Justa,
in October, 1937. Between
1958 and 1960 he acts as coordinator for Pirâmide
magazine, of which three issues are published.
Its articles were written by a large number of writers, most of whom
belonged to the surrealist movement: Mário
Cesariny de Vasconcelos, Luiz Pacheco, Herberto Hélder, Pedro Oom, António
José Forte, Ernesto Sampaio, Manuel de Castro, and others.
The magazine also published original works by Raul Leal, who also
wrote for Orpheu magazine, and by
António Maria Lisboa. In
1962, he publishes his first volume of poems, Arcano
Solar (Solar Secret) (Círculo de Cultura Ibero-americana, ed.), where
the influence of his surrealist teachers is visibly present.
In A Voz e o Sangue (The Voice
and the Blood) (Novo Rumo, Tomar, 1968), a violent indictment of the
Salazar dictatorship, he reveals a strong ideological commitment which got
him six months in prison. Following
the same ideological line of socialist realism, he publishes A Poesia Deve Ser Feita Por Todos (Poetry Should Be Made by Everyone)
(Ulmeiro, 1970), which is also apprehended by the secret police.
In 1990, he publishes a new volume of poems, O
Cárcere e o Prado Luminoso (The Prison Cell and the Luminous Prairie)
(Edições Salamandra, Lisbon). In
1985, he begins his career as a fiction writer by publishing the novel Talvez
um Grito (Perhaps a Scream) (Edições Salamandra), which receives the Diário
de Notícias Prize. In 1995, he
publishes his second novel, A Mão
Incendiada (The Hand in Flames) (Edições Colibri, Lisbon). In
addition to the above, he also publishes:
No Centenário de Romain Rolland (In the Centennial Commemoration of
Romain Rolland) (Crónicas de Autores Portugueses, Portugália; Cosmos,
Livros do Brasil, 1967), Antologia da
Poesia Contemporânea de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (An Anthology of
Contemporary Poetry from the Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro Regions) (Setentrião,
Vila Real, 1968), O Ministério do
Amor (The Ministry of Love), a play (Nova Realidade, Tomar, 1970).
He publishes three anthologies of poetry by Portuguese authors in
collaboration with Manuel Simões – Hiroxima (Hiroshima) (Nova Realidade, 1967), Vietname (Vietnam) (ibid., 1970) and Poemabril (April Poem) (ibid., 1st edition, 1984). Between
1964 and 1966, he was in charge of the poetry criticism section of the Jornal de Notícias, of Oporto.
He also worked for the Portuguese Radio and Television Network
and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, and was executive director
for a publishing house of the Hachette group, of Paris.
He graduated from the School of Belles-Lettres of the University of
Lisbon and is now an editor. On
this site, he is the author of the following biographies: |