Nuno Júdice

Nuno Judice (29 April 1949 – 17 March 2024) was a Portuguese essayist, poet, writer, novelist and academic.

He received Spain's Queen Sofia Ibero-American Poetry Prize in 2013, awarded by the Spanish National Heritage and the University of Salamanca, in the amount of 42,100 euros.

As a popularizer of Portuguese literature of the twentieth century, he launched in 1993, "Voyage dans un siècle de la Littérature Portugaise".

He had works translated in Spain, Italy, Venezuela, England and France, where he published Un chant dans l’épaisseur du temps in the Collection Poésie chez Éditions Gallimard.

He received the degree of "Oficial da Ordem de Santiago e Espada" (Officer of the Order of Santiago and Sword), in Portugal, and in France, the Officier degree of Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Officer of Arts and Letters).