Fernando Ilharco Morgado

Poet and essayist. He completed secondary studies in Angola and graduated in Civil Engineering from the University of Porto in 1954. He went into exile in 1964 and remained in Paris until late 1980, with an intervening stay in Brazil between 1972 and 1976. He was a leader of Cineclube Imagem in Lisbon and the Liga do Ensino in Paris. He contributed to the magazines Vértice, Seara Nova, and Imagem. He translated the book O Jardim das Carícias, by an anonymous 10th-century Arab author (Paris, 1995). His poems are included in the anthology Poesia Portuguesa do Após-Guerra, 1945-1965 (selected by Afonso Cautela and Serafim Ferreira, 1965), VII Antologia de Poesia Contemporânea (Lisbon, 1990), Cancioneiro 80 (Porto, 1990), and on the records La Poésie Portugaise de Nos Jours et de Toujours (Luís Cília, 1971), Devolta (Manuel Freire, 1978), as well as in the musical work Canticum Joviale by Lopes e Silva, premiered at the 17th Gulbenkian Contemporary Music Meeting, 1993.