José Régio

José Régio, whose real name was José Maria dos Reis Pereira, was born on 17 September 1901 in Vila do Conde. A student of Romance philology at Coimbra, he defended there a thesis that placed Fernando Pessoa, then without a published book, at the summit of the poetry of his time, and in 1927 founded the journal Presença, of which he was the main spokesman. A teacher at the lycée in Portalegre from 1929 until his retirement in 1962, he was a poet, novelist, playwright and critic. He died on 22 December 1969 in his house in Vila do Conde.

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• PoetryAs Encruzilhadas de DeusJosé Régio · 1936not translated into EnglishLiterature