Mário de Sá-Carneiro (Lisbon, 1890-Paris, 1916) was a Portuguese poet, short story writer and novelist, one of the greatest exponents of modernism in Portugal. He started writing since his childhood, and translating authors with Victor Hugo or Goethe since his adolescence. He began his university studies in Coimbra, where he met Pessoa, who introduced him to modernism. Disappointed with the atmosphere in Lisbon, he went to Paris to continue his law studies, but he got carried away by the bohemian life and soon dropped out of school. In 1914, at the beginning of the First World War, he returned to Lisbon and, together with his friend Pessoa, took charge of editing the modernist magazine Orpheu, of which only two issues appeared but which has been fundamental in the history of Portuguese literature. The years between 1912 and 1916, the year of his death, were undoubtedly those of his greatest literary production. On his return to Paris in 1915 he fell into a terrible depression that led him to commit suicide at the age of twenty-six.