Manuel Mendes Nobre de Gusmão (11 December 1945 – 9 November 2023) was a Portuguese academic, poet, essayist, translator, and politician of the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP).
[1] Born in Évora on 11 December 1945, Gusmão earned a degree in Roman philology from the University of Lisbon with a thesis titled Poética de Francis Ponge.
He founded the journals Ariane and Dedalus and became editorial coordinator of Vértice [pt] in 1988.
[2] Gusmão was the winner of the 2004 Prémio D. Dinis [pt], the Premio Vergílio Ferreira in 2005, and the Grande Prémio de Literatura DST [pt] in 2009.
[4] Manuel Gusmão died in Lisbon on 9 November 2023, at the age of 77.