Jaime Montestrela

Jaime Montestrela (June 12, 1925 in Lisbon, Portugal — November 8, 1975, Paris) was a Portuguese poet and writer.

Biography

Jaime Monstestrela was born in 1925. He belongs to this generation of Portuguese writers of the Salazar dictatorship years, which counts among its ranks Augusto Abaleira or Eugenio de Andrade. He studied medicine and began a career in psychiatry at the Miguel Bombarda hospital, Lisbon. In 1950, he published a book of poetry, Prisão under the name of Jaime Caixas, named after the prison where political dissidents were tortured and emprisoned. Exiled in Brazil in 1951, he moved to Rio de Janeiro, was naturalized and became a friend of the writer and critic Jorge de Sena, before leaving the country in 1965, when the military seized power. He moved to Paris, where he died in 1975 from a vascular incident. Its texts are traversed by the questions of God's absence, of the physical decline. Capable as well of humor or gravity, lyricism or scatology, he was a friend of Surrealist artists and members of the Oulipo.

Books

• Prisão (1950)
• Cidade de lama, (1962)
• Contos aquosos, (1974)

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