Vergilio Ferreira ( port. Vergílio António Ferreira Gose ; January 28, 1916 , Melu (Hoveya) - March 1, 1997 , Lisbon ) - Portuguese prose writer and poet, teacher, author of dozens of novels, stories, short stories, essays.
| Vergilio Ferreira | |
|---|---|
| port. Vergílio António Ferreira Gose | |
| Date of Birth | January 28, 1916 |
| Place of Birth | Melo (Gové) , Portugal |
| Date of death | March 1, 1997 (81 years) |
| Place of death | Lisbon , Portugal |
| Citizenship |  Portugal |
| Occupation | prose writer , poet , essayist , teacher |
| Direction | neorealism , existentialism |
| Language of Works | Portuguese |
| Awards | Camoens Award ( 1992 ) [d] ( 1954 ) |
Biography
Vergilio Ferreira was born into the family of Antonio Augusto Ferreira and Josefa Ferreira, who in 1927 emigrated to Canada in search of a better life. Parting hurt a little Vergilio.
At age 12, Vergilio was sent to a Catholic seminary, where he then spent six years. The orders in the seminary were extremely strict and difficult for the child, which left a heavy imprint on his outlook, forcing him to give up on faith and people. Time in the seminary Ferreira described in the autobiographical novel "The Lost Morning of Life."
Ferreira later studied at the University of Coimbra. There he began to write - first poems, and then novels. The main part of his life worked as a teacher.
From 1946 to the end of his life, he was married to Regina Kasprzykowski (Kasprzykowsky), a Polish teacher who had come to Portugal as a military refugee.
Ferreira's work is divided into two main stages: neorealism and existentialism.
Publications in Russian
- Favorites. And now the shadow. M .: Fiction, 1980
- Modern Portuguese story. M .: Fiction, 1983
- Favorites. M .: Rainbow, 1986
- In the name of the earth. M .: B.S.G.-Press, 2003
- Lost morning of life. M .: Center for the Book of Rudomino, 2014