Ana Hatherly

Ana Hatherly (8 May 1929 – 5 August 2015) was a Portuguese academic, poet, visual artist, essayist, film maker, painter and writer. She was considered one of the pioneers of experimental poetry and literature movement in Portugal.
Biography.
Hatherly was born in Porto, Portugal, in 1929. She held a degree in Germanic philology from the University of Lisbon and a doctorate in Hispanic studies from the University of California, Berkeley, as well as training in both film and music. Hatherly was a professor of human and social sciences at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, where she founded the university's Institute of Portuguese Studies. She utilized film, visual arts, and poetry in her work, which included the avant-garde.
During 1958, she started her literary career with the publication of "Um Ritmo Perdido", a collection of poems. Hatherly has also published numbers of poetry, essays and fiction that translated into European languages, Japanese and Chinese. She is a graduate of Lisbon Classical University and having a PhD degree from the University of California in Berkeley. She later became Emeritus Professor and the founding member of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She was also the Chair of the Portuguese PEN Club.
Hatherly interested in the visual aspects of poetry which led her successfully exploring visual mediums of art, such as painting and films. Her poetry books include "Um Calculador de Improbabilidades" (2001), "O Pavão Negro" (2003), "Itinerários" (2003) and "Fibrilações" (2005).
Ana Hatherly died in a hospital in Lisbon, on 5 August 2015, at the age of 86. Her funeral was held at the Estrela Basilica in Lisbon, with burial in the cemitério dos Olivais.