Fernando Pessoa
Fernando Pessoa · Arts & Literature
Poet / lyricist
1888, Lisbon, Portugal — 1935, Lisbon, Portugal
Portugal · South Africa
Fernando Pessoa is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Poet / lyricist
Fernando Pessoa was a Portuguese poet and writer, one of the greatest figures of twentieth-century literature, famous for writing under numerous 'heteronyms' — invented authors with distinct styles and biographies. He was of partial Jewish descent: his paternal grandmother's family were New Christians (Portuguese Jews forcibly converted to Catholicism), and in an autobiographical note Pessoa described his ancestry as 'a mixture of Jews and nobles.'
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Poet / lyricist
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