Poet born in Fundão is the author of works such as Dryness Green (1950), The Paddles Scorching (1983), A Hill to the Lips (1993) and Written in Red (1999).
The writer and professor Albano Martins died at the age of 87 years, revealed this Wednesday the University Fernando Pessoa, Porto.
Albano Martins died this Wednesday, at the Hospital Santos Silva, Vila Nova de Gaia, where he was hospitalized, according to a source at the University Fernando Pessoa, refers to the funeral of the poet is marked for Thursday, 16h, coming out of Mafamude, Vila Nova de Gaia, where the writer lived. There will not be a wake, nor there will be funeral ceremonies.
Teaching at this university, Albano Martins was born in 1930, in the village of the Roof, in the municipality of Fundão, and his work is published in about two dozen books of poetry and numerous anthologies and collective works.
Degree in Classical Philology from the University of Lisbon, Albano Martins is the author of works such as Dryness Green (1950), The Paddles Scorching (1983), A Hill to the Lips (1993) or Written in Red (1999).
In 1986, he was awarded by the Brazilian Society of Language and Literature, Rio de Janeiro, with the medal Oskar Nobiling of cultural merit during the XVIII Brazilian Congress of Language and Literature.
The first book, Dryness of the Green, date from the 1950s, the second, the Heart of the Compass, 1967, passing then to publish regularly.
"I had to work very hard to be a teacher," said the poet, in March of 2009, when he was honored at the 1.Th get-together of the Poetry Spring, in Vila Nova de Gaia. So there is a gap in the work, in the years 1950/60. The university had not prepared anyone to teach at that time, he said.
In this session of honor for his 80 years, transcribed on the blog of the Municipal Library of vila nova de Gaia, Albano Martins said he did not like to speak in literary career.
"Poets do not have a literary career", he assured. "Write because writing is a necessity, because it is imperative to write."
Source: The Public.en