Fernando Pessoa’s ID card, 1900. (Photo by Marka / Universal Images Group via Getty Images) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional promotional ...

Pessoa had dozens of these alter egos, which he would eventually call “heteronyms.” He gave them birthdates and biographies, cast their horoscopes, practiced their signatures, and brought them along ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. Does genius know itself? Adrienne Rich thought so. She held that Emily Dickinson chose seclusion not ...

Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) contained a multitude of adventurous personalities despite his staid lifestyle, according to translator Zenith (The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa) in ...

In his novel, The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis (1988), José Saramago imagines the Portuguese poet, Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935), visiting one of his many writer-selves, Ricardo Reis, soon after ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. At intervals, this gargantuan yet graceful biography reminds you of its subject’s fabulous oddity. In 1926, ...

The 2025 record price for Fernando Pessoa was for JÚLIO POMAR (n.1926-2018), "Fernando Pessoa The 2024 record price for Fernando Pessoa was for Fernando Pessoa The 2022 record price for Fernando ...