Jorge de Sena

Jorge de Sena

JORGE DE SENA (Lisbon, 1919; Santa Barbara, United States, 1978) is one of the most outstanding intellectuals of which Eugénio de Andrade called "the Portuguese Golden Age". Novelist (author of the unforgettable Signs of Fire), critic, scholar, poet, his vast bibliography knows no limits of gender or intention. Exiled after a failed coup d'etat against the Salazar dictatorship, first to Brazil and then to the United States, he published a dozen long books of poems, several fiction books, plays and influential essays. Unconformist, controversial, incorruptible, there is not a page of his that is not both a lucid criticism of the current world and a manifesto in favor of a world to come, paradoxically very similar to it.