Died, on Sunday, Fernando Fernandes, bookseller fundamental to the history of bookstores of Porto, founder of the Disclosure, after the call the bookstore Reading. Had 84 years.
Agustina Bessa-Luís was considered the "the greatest of the booksellers of Portugal" and several in the city they called him the "Mr. Book". The bookstore "Read", since the 60s until the end of the decade of 90, when Fernando Fernandes retired, was an obligatory stop for lovers of books, especially by the extensive offer in the fields of History, Art, Architecture or Philosophy.
Among the regular clients were names such as Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, José Saramago, Manuel Alegre or Mário Soares. Figures of culture, arts and politics that, when they came to the Port, they made a point of going to Reading, sourcing of books that hardly were for sale elsewhere.
He was born in Thorn, in January 1934. In 1958, Fernando de Lima Pinho Fernandes opened, with Carlos Porto, José Augusto Seabra and Dave Joy, in Porto ,livraria-galeria Disclosure, which, a decade later, if transformau in the bookstore Reading.
In 1999, the year he retired, the mayor of Porto, awarded him the Medal of the Golden City, after having been awarded the Order of Merit by Jorge Sampaio.
The body of Fernando Fernandes is going to be on camera burning in the Palacete dos Viscondes Balsemão, Porto, from 11 hours.