José Alberto Oliveira
Médico cardiologista, José Alberto Oliveira nasceu em 1952 em Souto da Casa, Fundão, e vive atualmente em Lisboa. Publicou o seu primeiro livro de poemas em 1992, na Assírio & Alvim, e surpreendeu pelo seu lirismo discreto e pela diversidade temática de aproximação a aspetos do quotidiano, onde além disso são notórias as influências da poesia inglesa. Traduziu Auden, Russell Edson, Frank O’Hara e Charles Simic, entre outros. Foi um dos principais colaboradores do livro «Rosa do Mundo — 2001 poemas para o futuro».
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He wrote stories which, in their jungle settings, use the supernatural and the bizarre to show the struggle of man and animal to survive. He also excelled in portraying mental illness and hallucinatory states. His influence can be seen in the Latin American magic realism of Gabriel García Márquez and the postmodern surrealism of Julio Cortázar.
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Ocampo was the youngest of the six children of Manuel Ocampo and Ramona Aguirre. One of her sisters was Victoria Ocampo, the publisher of the literarily important Argentine magazine Sur.
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Su vida estuvo marcada por una constante reflexión sobre la condición humana, el arte y los dilemas éticos del siglo XX. Durante la última dictadura militar en Argentina, presidió la Comisión Nacional sobre la Desaparición de Personas (CONADEP), que produjo el emblemático informe Nunca Más.
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