Branquinho da Fonseca

António José Branquinho da Fonseca (4 May 1905 – 7 May 1974) was a Portuguese writer. Some of his early works were published under the pseudonym António Madeira.^[1] He is best remembered as the first editor of Presença,^[2] "one of the most important, if not the most important, Portuguese literary reviews of the twentieth century",^[3] and for the novella The Baron.^[1]

Biography[edit]

He was the son of the writer Tomás da Fonseca.^[2] He studied law at the University of Coimbra where he met José Régio and João Gaspar Simões. In 1923–1924 he co-founded the literary review Tríptico which lasted until 1925.^[3] In 1927 he and Gaspar Simões founded the literary review Presença^[1] and he served as its first editor.^[2] He left Presença in 1930 to edit the review journal Sinal (1930) with fellow Presença outcast Miguel Torga. Later he was a main contributor of Manifesto (1936–1938).^[1]^[3]

Bibliography[edit]

Poetry^[1]

Poemas (1926)
Mar coalhado (1932; "Curdled Sea")

Plays^[1]

Posição de Guerra (1928; "War Post")
Teatro (1939)

Short stories and novellas^[1]

Zonas (1931)
Caminhos magnéticos (1938; "Magnetic Paths")
O Barão (1942; "The Baron")
Rio turvo (1945; "Turbid River")
Mar Santo (1952; "Holy Sea")
Bandeira preta (1956; "Black Banner")

Novels^[1]

Porta de Minerva (1947; "Minerva's Gate")

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Fagundes, Francisco Cota (1996). "Introduction". The Baron. Center for Portuguese Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara. pp. 7–18. ISBN 0-942208-30-7.
^ ^a ^b ^c Rothwell, Phillip (2009). "Narrative and Drama During the Dicatatorship". In Parkinson, Stephen; Pazos Alonso, Cláudia; Earle, T.F. (eds.). A Companion to Portuguese Literature. Tamesis. p. 160. ISBN 978-1-85566-194-3.
^ ^a ^b ^c Ramer, Richard C. (2020). "Special List 375 Fiction" (PDF). p. 58. Retrieved 10 August 2021.