Gonçalo Salvado

Born in 1967, he holds a degree in Philosophy from the Catholic University of Lisbon. He has published several poetry books, including Iridescences, in which the poems were integrated into an album with serigraphs by Spanish artist Xavier in 2003. The edition was prefaced by Maria João Fernandes, who places him “in the line of poet-painter Júlio Saúl Dias” and “with a refined and luminous lyricism”. Pedro Mexia has commented on his work: “(…) Gonçalo Salvado fits into the richest tradition of Portuguese poetry, which is also the most demanding: the tradition of love lyricism (…), in a fruitful line of chaste eroticism that finds its greatest expression in the Song of Songs.” He has also published the anthology: Love Only, a edition by Caja Duero, Salamanca, Lisbon, 1999, with prefaces by José Miguel Santolaya Silva and Mendo Castro Henriques, and drawings by Ambrósio Ferreira. In 2004, he organized the anthology Cherries – Love Poems by Contemporary Portuguese Authors, together with Maria João Fernandes, who was responsible for choosing the painters who illustrate it. The anthology includes several of his own drawings.