Silva, Vítor Manuel de Aguiar e

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Information for Authority record

Name (Latin)
Silva, Vítor Manuel de Aguiar e
Other forms of name
Aguiar e Silva, Vítor Manuel de
De Aguiar e Silva, Vítor Manuel
Silva, V. M. P. de Aguiar e (Vítor Manuel P. de Aguiar e)
Date of birth
1939-09-15
Date of death
2022-09-12
Occupation
College administrators
Associated Language
por
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 19673000
Wikidata: Q10392738
Library of congress: n 83020960
TAU10: 000280031
Sources of Information
  • Dicionário de Luís de Camões, 2011:t.p. (Vítor Aguiar e Silva) jkt. (b. 1939; Vice-Chancellor of the University of Minho, 1990-2002)
  • His Teoria da literatura, 1967.
  • His Teoria da literatura, 1982:t.p. (Vítor Manuel de Aguiar e Silva)
  • Jorge de Sena e Camões, 2009:t.p. (Vítor Aguiar e Silva) prelim. (b. 1939)
  • Wikidata, Aug. 1, 2023:(Vítor Manuel Aguiar e Silva; b. Sep. 15, 1939, Real, Penalva do Castelo, Portugal; PhD in Portuguese lit from the Universidad de Coímbra; poet, philologist, professor; was part of the group that formed the Instituto Camões and the Comisión Nacional de Lengua Portuguesa (CNALP); was a member of the Consejo Nacional de Cultura; d. Sep. 12, 2022)

Wikipedia description:

Vítor Manuel de Aguiar e Silva (1939–2022) was a Portuguese scholar, writer and poet. He was born in the parish of Real in Penalva do Castelo. He studied at the Liceu Nacional de Viseu and the University of Coimbra. He obtained a doctorate in Portuguese literature, and then in 1979, he took up a teaching career at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Coimbra. He later moved to the University of Minho where he served as the vice-rector from 1990 to 2002. A prolific scholar and writer, he won the Camoes Prize in 2020. He published more than a dozen books on Portuguese literature, among them several works on the Portuguese national poet Luis de Camoes. He died in September 2022. In 2024, he received the "Ordem de Camões" award by the President of Portugal Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa. The award is posthumous for his contributions to the Portuguese language and its projection in the world.

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