Nuno Júdice

Nuno Júdice

Nuno Manuel Gonçalves Júdice Glória (Mexilhoeira Grande, April 29, 1949) is a Portuguese essayist, poet, novelist, and university professor.

Graduated in Romance Philology from the University of Lisbon and obtained a doctorate from the New University of Lisbon, where he is an associate professor and where he defended a thesis on medieval literature in 1989. Cultural advisor to the Embassy of Portugal and director of the Camões Institute in Paris, he published anthologies, literary criticism, history, studies in Theory of Literature and Portuguese Literature and maintains regular collaboration in the press. Disseminator of 20th century Portuguese literature, he published Voyage dans un siècle de Littérature Portugaise in 1993. Organized the European Poetry Week, in the field of Lisbon '94 - European Capital of Culture. He is currently director of the Colóquio-Letras Magazine of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.

Poet and novelist, his literary debut took place with A Noção de Poema (1972). In 1985 he would receive the Pen Club Prize, the D. Dinis Prize from the Mateus Foundation in 1990. In 1994, the Portuguese Association of Writers distinguished him for the publication of Meditação sobre Ruínas, finalist in the Aristeion Prize for European Literature. He also signed plays for the theater and translated authors such as Corneille and Emily Dickinson.