Nuno Júdice’s poetry (…) progressively abolishes the boundaries between the various domains of physical, spiritual and dream-like reality; such worlds are converted into hypotheses of language, and therefore into the poem, through a process which is very clearly conveyed by the title of one of his books: ‘the romantic mechanism of fragmentation.
Vasco Graça Moura
Nuno Júdice was born in Mexilhoeira Grande, Algarve. He is a Professor of Literature at the Universidade Nova in Lisbon, where he lives. He is currently the Editor of the Gulbenkian Foundation literary magazine, Colóquio-Letras. He published his first poetry book in 1972, followed by many others and was the recipient of several renowned poetry prizes. Throughout the years, he has also published extensively as a novelist, an essayist and a literary critic.
Poetry books since 2000: Poesia Reunida (1967-2000) (2000), Pedro, Lembrando Inês (2001), Cartografia de Emoções (2001), O Estado dos Campos (2003), Geometria Variável (2005), As Coisas Mais Simples (2006), As coisas mais simples (2006), O fruto da gramática (2006), O Breve Sentimento do Eterno (2008), A Matéria do Poema (2008), Guia de Conceitos Básicos (2010), Fórmulas de uma luz inexplicável (2012), Navegação de Acaso (2013), O fruto da gramática (2014), A Convergência dos Ventos (2015), O Mito da Europa (2017), A pura inscrição do amor (2018), O coro da desordem (2019), Regresso a um Cenário Campestre (2020), 50 anos de poesia (2022).