Branquinho da Fonseca
António José Branquinho da Fonseca (4 May 1905 – 7 May 1974) was a Portuguese writer. Some of his early works were published under the pseudonym António Madeira. He is best remembered as the first editor of Presença, "one of the most important, if not the most important, Portuguese literary reviews of the twentieth century", and for the novella The Baron.
Branquinho da Fonseca
- Born
- 1905. · Mortágua.
- Died
- 1974. · Cascais.
- Nationality
- Portugal.
- Occupation
- poet and writer.
- Education
- Law School of the University of Coimbra.
- Honours
- Grand Officer of the Military Order of Saint James of the Sword.
- Languages
- Portuguese.
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António José Branquinho da Fonseca (4 May 1905 – 7 May 1974) was a Portuguese writer. Some of his early works were published under the pseudonym António Madeira. He is best remembered as the first editor of Presença, "one of the most important, if not the most important, Portuguese literary reviews of the twentieth century", and for the novella The Baron.
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He was the son of the writer Tomás da Fonseca. He studied law at the University of Coimbra where he met José Régio and João Gaspar Simões. In 1923–1924 he co-founded the literary review Tríptico which lasted until 1925. In 1927 he and Gaspar Simões founded the literary review Presença and he served as its first editor. He left Presença in 1930 to edit the review journal Sinal (1930) with fellow Presença outcast Miguel Torga. Later he was a main contributor of Manifesto (1936–1938).
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- 1.http://www.cm-mortagua.pt/modules.php?name=Sections&sop=viewarticle&artid=61
- 2.Diário de Notícias, 30 de Setembro de 1976.
- 3.António Manuel Ferreira, Prefácio in FONSECA, Branquinho da, Obras Completas vol.I, Imprensa Nacional Casa da Moeda, Lisboa, 2010
- 4.NEVES, Rui – As bibliotecas em movimento. As bibliotecas móveis em Portugal. Comunicação apresentada no “II Congreso de Bibliotecas Móviles”, que decorreu em Barcelona, de 21 a 22 de Outubro de 2005. (em formato word-pdf) http://www.bibliobuses.com/documentos/ruineves.pdf
- 5.Página do Prémio Branquinho da Fonseca no site da Câmara Municipal de Cascais
- 6.Prémio Branquinho da Fonseca Expresso/Gulbenkian
- 7.Dicionário Cronológico de Autores Portugueses, Lisboa, 1999
- 8.MOISÉS, Massaud, O Conto Português, ed. Cultrix, São Paulo, 1975
- 9.Dicionário de Maçonaria Portuguesa.
- 10.Carta de Fernando Pessoa requerendo o lugar de conservador-bibliotecário
- 11.FERREIRA, António Manuel, Contornos da Narrativa Breve na Obra de Branquinho da Fonseca http://www2.dlc.ua.pt/classicos/ConfNarratBreve_123_128pp.pdf
- 12.TORRES, Alexandre Pinheiro, O Neo-Realismo Literário Português, Moraes, Lisboa, 1977, p. 171
- 13.SARAIVA, A. J. & LOPES Oscar, História da Literatura Portuguesa, 17a. ed., Porto Editora, 1996, p. 1015
- 14.Helena Roldão. Ficha histórica: Mundo literário : semanário de crítica e informação literária, científica e artística (1946-1948). 27-01-2014.
- 15.Helena Roldão. Ficha histórica:Litoral : revista mensal de cultura (1944-1945). 19 de Junho de 2018.
- 16.PRADO COELHO, Jacinto do, ed. Dicionário de literatura: literatura portuguesa, literatura brasileira, literatura galega, estilística literária. 5 vols. Porto: Figueirinhas, 1994
- 17.FONSECA, Branquinho da, O Barão, Relógio D'Água Editora, Lisboa, 1998
- 18.Cidadãos Nacionais Agraciados com Ordens Portuguesas.
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