Alexandre O'Neill

Statue of Alexandre ONeill in the park Parque dos Poetas.

Alexandre O'Neill. (Lisbon, December 19, 1924 - † Lisbon, August 21, 1986). He is a Portuguese poet.

Biography

Alexandre Manuel Vahia de Castro O'Neill was born and died in Lisbon. In 1944 he finished his first year at the Lisbon Naval School. In 1945 he went to live with a sister of his mother. In 1948 he founded, along with other artists, the Lisbon Surrealist Movement and collaborated on A Amapôla Miraculosa (1948), a book of surrealist collages.

In 1951 he published Tempo de Fantasmas and was arrested in 1953 by the State Security Police, remaining in prison for forty days. In 1957 he married Noémia Delgado, from whom he later divorced and a year later he published No Reino da Dinamarca (1951). He had a hectic love life, he married for the second time with Teresa Patrício Gouveia. He died in Lisbon in 1986 of vascular complications.

In translation and selection by Jerónimo Pizarro, the volume Acordeón. Poetic Anthology, Bogotà: FCE, 2020.

His works include:

Works

• Abandoned Vigil1960.
• Feira Cabisbaixa1965
• De Ombro na Ombreira1969
• As Andorinhas não têm Restaurant1970
• Between Cortina and Vidraça, 1972
• Saca de Orelhas1976
• Uma Coisa em Shape of AsSim, 1980
• As Hours Day Of Dressed Numbers1981.
• Dezanove Poems1983.
• O Princípio de Utopia, O Princípio de Realidade1986.