David Mourão-Ferreira

David de Jesus Mourão-Ferreira, GCSE (Lisbon, 24 February 1927 – Lisbon, 16 June 1996) was a Portuguese writer and poet from Lisbon.

He was a son of David Ferreira (b. 1898) and wife Teresa de Jesus Ferro Mourão (b. 1907). He studied Romanic Philology in 1951 in the University of Lisbon and in 1957 became a Professor.

He married firstly Maria Eulália Barbosa Valentim de Carvalho, sister of Rui Valentim de Carvalho, of now EMI-Valentim de Carvalho label, and maternal aunt of Manuela Moura Guedes' first husband, by whom he had issue, and secondly Maria do Pilar de Jesus Barata, without issue.

Poems

• 1954 - Tempestade de Verão (awarded by Delfim Guimarães)
• 1958 - Os Quatro Cantos do Tempo
• 1962 - In Memoriam Memoriae
• 1962 - Infinito Pessoal ou A Arte de Amar
• 1966 - Do Tempo ao Coração (Of The Time to The Heart)
• 1967 - A Arte de Amar (combination of previous works)
• 1969 - Lira de Bolso
• 1971 - Cancioneiro de Natal (awarded by Nacional de Poesia)
• 1973 - Matura Idadeaa
• 1974 - Sonetos do Cativo (Captive Sonnets)
• 1976 - As Lições do Fogo
• 1980 - Obra Poética (Poetic Works) (includes a guitar and a violin)
• 1985 - Os Ramos e os Remos
• 1988 - Obra Poética, 1948-1988 (Poetic Works, 1948-1988)
• 1994 - Música de Cama (erotic anthology with an unedited book)

Narrative fictions

• 1959 - Novelas de Gaivotas em Terra (awarded by Ricardo Malheiros)
• 1968 - Os contos de Os Amantes (The Stories of the Loved Ones)
• 1980 - As Quatro Estações (awarded by the International Association of Literary Critics)
• 1986 - Um Amor Feliz (A Happy Love)
• 1987 - Duas Histórias de Lisboa (Two Histories of Lisbon)

See also

• Instituto Camões

External links

• Photos and a few poems
• GeneAll.net David de Jesus Mourão Ferreira

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Name	Mourao-Ferreira, David
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Date of birth	24 February 1927
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Date of death	16 June 1996
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