Alexandre O'Neill

Alexandre O'Neill was born in Lisbon on 19 December 1924, into a family of Irish descent. After secondary school and the nautical school, he was self-taught. He was one of the founders of the Lisbon surrealist group, from which he broke away in 1951. Arrested several times by the political police, he spent twenty-one days in Caxias in 1953 for having gone to welcome Maria Lamas, who was returning from a peace congress; he joined no party. An advertising copywriter, author of slogans that remained famous, he wrote regular columns in the Lisbon press from 1957. He died in Lisbon on 21 August 1986.

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• PoetryNo Reino da DinamarcaAlexandre O'Neill · 1958not translated into EnglishLiterature