ROLANDO GALVÃO Translated
by John D. Godinho
Rolando Galvão was born in Vila Nova de Anços,
District of Soure, in 1930. He studies at Escola
Brotero, in Coimbra, at the Commercial Institute of Lisbon and at the
Superior Institute of Economic and Financial Sciences, from which he
graduates in 1954. At the
latter school, in 1952/53, he becomes manager of the Academic
Association Bulletin, a magazine intended to give students an
opportunity to publish their work. After a year of teaching,
he decides to become a business administrator. His first poem is pulished
in 1953, under the name of “Rando,”
in the Anthology of Revelations,
a supplement of the newspaper Diário
Popular, directed by Branquinho da Fonseca, who encourages him to
continue writing poetry. He becomes a regular
contributor to the newspaper O Comércio
do Porto, in the early 60s, writing several articles on social and
economic issues. He also
publishes occasionally in magazines and newspapers of more limited
circulation, covering matters along the same line.
In the 1990s, he publishes some articles in the daily Diário
de Notícias. He writes poetry
continuously, but he shares it only with a few friends.
In 1969, he publishes Sete
Dimensões (Seven Dimensions), and, in 1998, Canto Poligonal (Many-angled Chant), under the name of Azevedo Galvão. He is now working on two
books, one of which, entitled O Som
e a Seiva (The Sound and the Sap
of Life), will be published
in the near future. On this site, he is the
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