Julião Bernardes

Poet. An Army officer, he completed four service commissions in the Portuguese colonies in Africa and transferred to the reserve, at his request, in 1980, with the rank of major. From 1980 to 1991, he worked in the financial section of a civil construction and public works company, and from 1992 to 1993, he was production director and, subsequently, Administration advisor for Organization and Cost Control in a group of seven companies. Between 1980 and 1993, he was also a department head and services director in civil construction and security companies. He has poetic contributions in the poetry magazine Alamo (Salamanca) and in the anthologies Cântico em Honra de Miguel Torga and Viola Delta XXII. He is a member of the Associação Portuguesa de Escritores, the Sociedade Portuguesa de Escritores, the Associação Cultural Sol XXI, and the Grupo de Estudos Figueira da Foz, and is part of the «Rio de Prata» literary circle, along with twenty other writers, including A. M. Couto Viana, Ulisses Duarte, and João Marcos. Julião Bernardes is the pseudonym of João Joaquim Leão Repolho. He has several works ready for publication.