Eduardo Pitta

• Born — 9 August 1949 • Birthplace — Lourenço Marques, Portuguese Mozambique • Died — 25 July 2023 • Place of death — Torres Vedras, Portugal • Occupation — Novelist, poet, critic • Website — www.eduardopitta.com

Born in Lourenço Marques, now Maputo, on 9 August 1949, he lived in Mozambique until 1975. He had published ten books of poetry. A large selection of that corpus of poems was collected in Desobediência, 2011. It is represented in several anthologies of contemporary Portuguese poetry. A significant number of his essays and critical writings have been collected in six volumes. With his trilogy of short-stories Persona, 2000, his writing underwent a tectonic movement. One of these stories, Kalahari, was translated by Alison Aiken and published in Chroma, a Queer Literary Journal, from London. In 2013 he published a memoir, Um Rapaz a Arder. His poetry and prose have appeared in various magazines and anthologies in Portugal, Spain, France, Brasil, Colombia, England, Israel, USA and, in his early years (1968–1975), in Mozambique. In addition to the short story The Stratagem, published in the collective volume, he has published several short stories in the magazine Egoísta. He did literary criticism in the magazines Colóquio-Letras (1987–2018), LER (1990–2006), and Sábado (2011–2022), as well as in the newspapers Diário de Notícias (1996–1998) and Público (2005–2011). Between 1994 and 2006, he was the author of the poetry criticism section O Som & o Sentido for the magazine LER. In the same magazine, between 2008 and 2014, he published chronicles in the column Heterodoxias.

Pitta married Jorge Neves, his partner from 1972, in 2010. Eduardo Pitta died on 25 July 2023, at the age of 73.

• Year — Title • 1974 — Sílaba a Sílaba • 1979 — Um Cão de Angústia Progride • 1983 — A Linguagem da Desordem • 1984 — Olhos Calcinados • 1988 — Archote Glaciar • 1991 — Arbítrio • 1999 — Marcas de Água • 2004 — Poesia Escolhida • 2011 — Y si Todo, de Repente? / Spanish anthology • 2011 — Desobediência

• Year — Title • 2000 — Persona, short stories • 2007 — Cidade Proibida, novel • 2021 — Devastação, short stories

• Year — Title • 2002 — Comenda de Fogo • 2003 — Fractura • 2004 — Metal Fundente • 2007 — Intriga em Família • 2010 — Intriga em Família • 2014 — Pompas Fúnebres

• Year — Title • 2005 — Os Dias de Veneza • 2013 — Cadernos Italianos • 2013 — Um Rapaz a Arder

• Year — Title • 2008 — Canções e Outros Poemas, António Botto • 2008 — Fátima, António Botto • 2018 — Poesia, António Botto's complete poetry