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| Eugénio de Andrade .. Caricature by António Santos - Portugal |
Eugénio de Andrade, Portuguese poet. He is revered as one of the leading names in contemporary Portuguese poetry, was born in Póvoa de Atalaia, Concelho do Fundão, Beira Baixa, on 19 January 1923. After his parents' marriage broke apart, he moved to Lisbon in 1933 and attended the Lyceum Passos Manuel and the Escola Técnica Machado de Castro where he wrote his first poems three years later.