Sebastião da Gama
| Sebastião da Gama | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Sebastião Artur Cardoso da Gama 10 April 1924 Vila Nogueira de Azeitão, Setúbal |
| Died |
7 February 1952 (aged 27) Lisbon |
| Occupation | poet |
Sebastião Artur Cardoso da Gama, (10 April 1924—7 February 1952) was a Portuguese poet.
Sebastião da Gama got a degree in Roman Philosophy by the Faculty of Letters at the University of Lisbon.[1]
He was professor at the Veiga Beirão Commercial and Industrial School in Lisbon, later in suburban Setúbal at the Commercial Industrial School (now the Escola Secundária Sebastião da Gama) and in Estremoz at the local Commercial and Industrial School, the city where a primary school would be named after, the modern Basic School (Escola Básica Sebastião da Gama EB2,3 Estremoz).
He published several reviews including Mundo Literário[2] between 1946 and 1948, Árvore and Távola Redonda.
His work was about Serra da Arrábida, where he lived and took a foreground poetic movement, and his personal tragedy which he later died of it, tuberculosis.
He made a charter which was sent on August 1947 with other personalities to protect Serra da Arrábida and formed a movement to create LPN Liga para a Protecção da Natureza (Natural Protection League) in 1948, the first Portuguese ecologic association.[3]
In Diário, edited posthumously in 1958, he was interested on his experiences as a teacher and a valuable reflection on teaching.
He died at the age of 27 of renal tuberculosis which he suffered when he was a teenager.[4][5]
The parish administrations of São Lourenço and São Simão, now fully neighborhoods of Setúbal, was honored with his name in the Portuguese National Poetry Award. On June 1, 1999, Museu Sebastião da Gama was founded in his birthplace and preserves the memories of his work Poeta da Arrábida. Seven of his poems were featured along with Cape Verdean poems in Poesia de Cabo Verde e Sete Poemas de Sebastião da Gama which was released as part of the Associação Música XXI in June 2007.
Works
Poetry
- Serra-Mãe. Lisboa: Portugália Editora, 1945
- Loas a Nossa Senhora da Arrábida. Com Miguel Caleiro. Lisboa: Imprensa Artística, 1946
- Cabo da Boa Esperança (Cape of Good Hope). Lisboa: Portugália Editora, 1947
- Campo Aberto (Shut Camp). Lisboa: Portugália Editora, 1951
Prose
- A Região dos Três Castelos. Azeitão: Transportadora Setubalense, 1949.
Posthumous publications
- Pelo Sonho é que Vamos, 1953
- Diário, 1958
- Itinerário Paralelo (Itinerary Parallel), 1967.
- Compiled by David Mourão-Ferreira
- O Segredo é Amar (Secrets from the Sea), 1969
- Cartas I (Charters I), 1994
References
- ↑ Infopedia (Portuguese)
- ↑ "Ficha histórica: Mundo literário : semanário de crítica e informação literária, científica e artística (1946-1948)" [Mundo literário: Critic's Seminary on Literary, Artistic and Scientiifc Information (1946-48)] (PDF) (in Portuguese). Hemeroteca Municipal de Lisboa. Retrieved 3 November 2014.
- ↑ "Cópia de carta de Sebastião da Gama a apelar à salvaguarda da Serra da da Arrábida" (in Portuguese). Nesta Hora Blog. April 2008.
- ↑ "Comemorações do 91.º Aniversário de Sebastião da Gama" [Commemorating the 91st Birthday of Sebastião da Gama] (in Portuguese). Zoom. 2015-04-01.
- ↑ "Sebastião da Gama (1924-1952)" (in Portuguese). Câmara Municipal de Setúbal. Retrieved 2005-05-08.
Further reading
- Martins, Engrácia da Glória Quintela Alves Sousa Varajão . Educação e Doutrinamento: O pensamento educacional de Sebastião da Gama (pdf) (Portuguese)
- Santos, Alexandre Francisco Ferreira dos Sebastião da Gama: milagre de vida em busca do eterno (pdf) (Portuguese)
External links
- Instituto Camões (Portuguese)
- Editorial Presença - Sebastião da Gama - Biography (Portuguese)
- http://alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt/vercial/sgama.htm Projecto Vercial] (Portuguese)