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Country Life

2022; Volume: 15; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3798/tia.1937-0237.2223

1937-0237

R. Zink,

Australian History and Society

My country is now world-renowned not only for its wine and cork and sailing history (first Europeans to reach Japan), it is also the birthplace of the poet of the thousand masks, Fernando Pessoa.His surname means 'Person' and can easily be read as 'Persona', mask, both theatrical and social.The literary magazine edited by the Casa Pessoa is, indeed, named Persona.Casa Pessoa is the museum dedicated to Pessoa, now a mustsee site, for Lisbon became the city of Pessoa, after being the city of Ulysses (well, one of them) and the city of Camões.Nowadays, you go downtown to Café Brasileira for a selfie at his table with his sculpture, and uptown to Casa Pessoa where you can grasp, in the very room where 1 Rui Zink was born in Lisbon in 1961.He's a professor of Editing and Writing at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, as well as a writer and translator, having published more than 30 books.