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WRITER

Fernando Pessoa

1888 - 1935

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Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa (Portuguese: [fɨɾˈnɐ̃du pɨˈsoɐ]; 13 June 1888 – 30 November 1935) was a Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher, and philosopher, described as one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th century and one of the greatest poets in the Portuguese language. He also wrote in and translated from English and French. Pessoa was a prolific writer, and not only under his own name, for he created approximately seventy-five others, of which three stand out: Alberto Caeiro, Álvaro de Campos, and Ricardo Reis. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fernando Pessoa has received more than 1,638,764 page views. His biography is available in 72 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 70 in 2019). Fernando Pessoa is the 159th most popular writer (up from 167th in 2019), the 10th most popular biography from Portugal (down from 9th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Portuguese Writer.

Fernando Pessoa is most famous for being a Portuguese poet and writer. He was born in Lisbon in 1888 and died in 1935.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Fernando Pessoa ranks 159 out of 5,755Before him are André Breton, Dr. Seuss, William Faulkner, Pliny the Younger, Jean Racine, and Hafez. After him are Menander, Novalis, Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Lucian, Naguib Mahfouz, and Karl Adolph Gjellerup.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Fernando Pessoa ranks 2Before him is Heinz Guderian. After him are T. E. Lawrence, Dale Carnegie, John Logie Baird, José Raúl Capablanca, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Giorgio de Chirico, Otto Stern, Carl Schmitt, Nikolai Bukharin, and Nestor Makhno. Among people deceased in 1935, Fernando Pessoa ranks 3Before him are Kazimir Malevich and Alfred Dreyfus. After him are T. E. Lawrence, Józef Piłsudski, Paul Signac, Emmy Noether, Arthur Henderson, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Alban Berg, Astrid of Sweden, and André Citroën.

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In Portugal

Among people born in Portugal, Fernando Pessoa ranks 10 out of 555Before him are Anthony of Padua (1195), António de Oliveira Salazar (1889), Prince Henry the Navigator (1394), José Saramago (1922), Pedro Álvares Cabral (1467), and António Guterres (1949). After him are Manuel I of Portugal (1469), Pope Damasus I (305), Luís de Camões (1524), Afonso I of Portugal (1109), Pedro I of Brazil (1798), and Cristiano Ronaldo (1985).

Among WRITERS In Portugal

Among writers born in Portugal, Fernando Pessoa ranks 2Before him are José Saramago (1922). After him are Luís de Camões (1524), Denis of Portugal (1261), Judah Leon Abravanel (1460), José Maria de Eça de Queirós (1845), Gil Vicente (1465), João de Barros (1496), Tomé Pires (1468), Camilo Castelo Branco (1825), Almeida Garrett (1799), and Luís Fróis (1532).