José de Melo

Poet, essayist, literary critic and journalist. Secondary school teacher. Degree in Romance Philology from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon. He was a Portuguese lector at the University of Heidelberg in 1968, and the first director of the Official Primary Teacher Training School of Aveiro. He collaborated in literary magazines such as Colóquio, Labor, among others, and in national and foreign newspapers. He is represented as a poet in O Corpo da Pátria (1971), by Pinharanda Gomes, and O Natal na Poesia Portuguesa (1987), by Luís Forjaz Trigueiros.