Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa
Portrait of Pessoa, 1914
Born	Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa (1888-06-13)13 June 1888 Lisbon, Portugal
Died	30 November 1935(1935-11-30) (aged 47) Lisbon, Portugal
Pen name	Alberto Caeiro, Álvaro de Campos, Ricardo Reis, Bernardo Soares [pt], etc.
Occupation	Poet writer translator philosopher
Language	Portuguese, English, French
Nationality	Portuguese
Citizenship	Portuguese
Alma mater	University of Lisbon
Period	1912–1935
Genre	Poetry, essay, fiction
Literary movement	Modernism
Notable works	Mensagem (1934) The Book of Disquiet (1982)
Notable awards	Queen Victoria Prize (1903) Antero de Quental Award (1934)
Partner	Ophelia Queiroz (girlfriend)
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Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa (Portuguese: [fɨɾˈnɐ̃du pɨˈsoɐ]; 13 June 1888 – 30 November 1935) was a Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher, and philosopher. He has been described as one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th century and one of the greatest poets in the Portuguese language. He also wrote in and translated from English and French.

Pessoa was a prolific writer, not only under his own name, as he wrote under approximately seventy-five other names, of which three stand out: Alberto Caeiro, Álvaro de Campos, and Ricardo Reis. He did not define these as pseudonyms because he felt that this did not capture their true independent intellectual life and instead called them heteronyms, a term he invented.^[1] These imaginary figures sometimes held unpopular or extreme views.