Richard Zenith
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Richard Zenith is an American-Portuguese writer and translator, winner of the Pessoa Prize in 2012.
Photo of Richard Zenith by Hanmin Kim
Luís de Camões
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Luís Vaz de Camões, sometimes rendered in English as Camoens or Camoëns, was a Portuguese poet, considered Portugal's and the Portuguese language's greatest poet. His mastery of verse has been compare
Richard Zenith
…prose and life. He has also translated Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Antero de Quental, Sophia de Mello Breyner, Nuno Júdice, António Lobo Antunes, and Luís de Camões, amongst other Portuguese-language writers. Zenith curated, together with Carlos Felipe Moisés, the much acclaimed exhibition Fernando Pessoa, Plural…
Portrait c. 1577
Camões, early 20th century depiction
Camões in Goa prison, in anonymous painting from 1556
Camões in the cave of Macau, in an engraving by Desenne, 1817