Item of Interest || Fernando Pessoa

The following article written by Syma Tariq appeared in the UK's Guardian: December 4, 2010.

The melancholy writer Fernando Pessoa, who died 75 years ago this week, was likely unaware of the effect he would have on Portugal decades later. Pessoa is still read by new students of literature, and older readers who constantly rediscover his work. He has been immortalised in statue form outside Lisbon's beautiful Brasileira cafe, and performances, exhibitions, and films pay him consistent tribute. There is even a table football in his old house-turned-museum – 11 wooden Pessoas competing against a cast of artistic and literary figures.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/dec/04/fernando-pessoa-portuguese-writer-multiple-faces?CMP=twt_gu