Eduardo Pitta (9 August 1949 – 25 July 2023) was a Portuguese poet, fiction writer and essayist.
Biography 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.
Works
Poetry YearTitle1974Sílaba a Sílaba1979Um Cão de Angústia Progride1983A Linguagem da Desordem1984Olhos Calcinados1988Archote Glaciar1991Arbítrio1999Marcas de Água2004Poesia Escolhida2011Y si Todo, de Repente? / Spanish anthology2011Desobediência
Fiction YearTitle2000Persona, short stories2007Cidade Proibida, novel2021 Devastação, short stories
Essay and critic YearTitle2002Comenda de Fogo2003 Fractura2004Metal Fundente2007Intriga em Família2010Intriga em Família2014 Pompas Fúnebres
Memoir YearTitle2005Os Dias de Veneza2013Cadernos Italianos2013Um Rapaz a Arder
Edited works YearTitle2008Canções e Outros Poemas, António Botto2008Fátima, António Botto2018Poesia, António Botto's complete poetry
References
Sources
«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]
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