Fernando Pessoa

Fernando António Nogueira de Seabra Pessôa, known mainly as Fernando Pessoa (Portuguese pronunciation: ; b. June 13, 1888 in Lisbon, Portugal — d. November 30, 1935 in the same city at the Hospital of São Luís), was a Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic and translator, and one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th century. The critic Harold Bloom has referred to him in the book The Western Cannon as the most representative poet of the 20th century, along with Pablo Neruda. He was trilingual in Portuguese, English, and in French.

List of works

Books by Fernando Pessoa

• Collected Poems of Álvaro de Campos, Vol. 2, 1928–1935, Translated from the Portuguese by Chris Daniels, Exeter (UK): Shearsman Books, 2009. ISBN 9781905700257 [3]
• Lisbon - What the Tourist Should See, Exeter (UK): Shearsman Books, 2008. ISBN 978190570752 [4]
• The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro, Translated from the Portuguese by Chris Daniels, Exeter (UK): Shearsman Books, 2007. ISBN 9781905700240 [5]
• Selected English Poems, Exeter (UK): Shearsman Books, 2007. ISBN 9781905700264 [6]
• Message, Translated from the Portuguese by Jonathan Griffin, Exeter (UK): Shearsman Books, 2007. ISBN 9781905700271 [7]
• Selected English Poems , ed. Tony Frazer, Exeter (UK): Shearsman Books, 2007. ISBN 1905700261
• A Centenary Pessoa, tr. Keith Bosley & L. C. Taylor, foreword by Octavio Paz, Carcanet Press, 2006. ISBN 1857547241
• A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems, tr. Richard Zenith, Penguin Classics, 2006. ISBN 0-14-303955-5
• The Education of the Stoic, tr. Richard Zenith, afterword by Antonio Tabucchi, Exact Change, 2004. ISBN 1878972405
• The Book of Disquiet, tr. Richard Zenith, Penguin classics, 2003. ISBN 9780141183046
• The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa, tr. Richard Zenith, Grove Press, 2002. ISBN 0-8021-3914-0
• Sheep's Vigil by a Fervent Person: A Translation of Alberto Caeiro, tr. Eirin Moure, House of Anansi, 2001. ISBN 0887846602
• Selected Poems: with New Supplement tr. Jonathan Griffin, Penguin Classics; 2nd edition, 2000. ISBN 0141184337
• Fernando Pessoa & Co: Selected Poems, tr. Richard Zenith, Grove Press, 1999. ISBN 0-8021-3627-3
• Poems of Fernando Pessoa, anthology ed. & tr. Edwin Honig & Susan M. Brown, City Lights Publishers, 1998. ISBN 0-87286-342-5
• The Keeper of Sheep, bilingual edition, tr. Edwin Honig & Susan M. Brown, Sheep Meadow, 1997. ISBN 1878818457
• Message, tr. Jonathan Griffin, introduction by Helder Macedo, Menard Press, 1992. ISBN 190570027X
• The Book of Disquietude, tr. Richard Zenith, Carcanet Press, 1991. ISBN 0-14-118304-7
• The Book of Disquiet, tr. Iain Watson, Quartet Books, 1991. ISBN 0704301539
• The Book of Disquiet, tr. Alfred Mac Adam, New York NY: Pantheon Books, 1991. ISBN 0679402349
• The Book of Disquiet, tr. Margaret Jull Costa, London, New York NY: Serpent's Tail, 1991, ISBN 1852422041
• Fernando Pessoa: Self-Analysis and Thirty Other Poems, tr. George Monteiro, Gavea-Brown Publications, 1989. ISBN 0943722144
• Always Astonished, tr. Edwin Honig, San Francisco CA: City Lights, 1988. ISBN 9780872862289
• Selected Poems by Fernando Pessoa, tr. Edwin Honig, Swallow Press, 1971. ISBN B000XU4FE4
• ENGLISH POEMS by Fernando Pessoa, 2 vol. ( vol. 1 part I - Antinous, part II - Inscriptions; vol. 2 part III - Epithalamium), Lisbon: Olisipo, 1921 (vol. 1 - 20 p., vol. 2 - 16 p., 24 cm). http://purl.pt/13967
• 35 SONNETS by Fernando Pessoa, Lisbon: Monteiro & Co., 1918 (20 p., 20 cm). http://purl.pt/13963
• ANTINOUS: a poem by Fernando Pessoa, Lisbon: Monteiro & Co., 1918 (16 p., 20 cm). http://purl.pt/13961
• Fernando Pessoa: The anarchist banker and other Portuguese stories Carcanet Press Ltd., 1996

 Quotes 

What would happen to the world if we were human? 
(Τι θα συνέβαινε στον κόσμο άν ήμασταν άνθρωποι;)

To be understood is to prostitute yourself. 
(Για να γίνεις κατανοητός πρέπει να  εκπορνεύσεις τον εαυτό σου)

To write is to forget. Literature is the pleasantest way of ignoring life.
(Το να γράφεις σημαίνει να ξεχνάς. Η Λογοτεχνία είναι ο πιο ευχάριστος τρόπος να αγνοείς τη ζωή)