Daniel Gonçalves

Born in Switzerland, he moved to Portugal with his parents as a child in 1983. He lived and studied in Santo Tirso, graduating in Portuguese Teaching from the University of Minho. In 1999 he moved to Vila do Porto, on Santa Maria Island in the Azores, where he works as a Portuguese teacher and president of the Island's Youth Association. Alongside this, he devotes himself to poetry, having been awarded, as early as 1993, the first Literary Prize of the Centro Internazionale Amici Scuola CIAS – UNESCO and the third prize of the National Poetry Contest – International Year of the Family. In 1997, he won the Poetry Revelation Prize of the Portuguese Writers' Association, supported by the DGLB, with the work A respiração dos gestos, published in 2000 by Difel, and in 2003, the Cesário Verde Poetry Prize. In 2010, under the pseudonym Inês Finisterra, his work Um coração sozinho was awarded the first Manuel Alegre Poetry Prize. This work was also selected in the Literature category of the LabJovem 2009 contest, which distinguishes young Azorean creators in various fields, an award that Daniel Gonçalves had also won in that same category in 2008. He has several published books and scattered contributions in anthologies, magazines, and literary newspapers.