Eduardo Pitta
Eduardo Pitta (born 9 August 1949) is a Portuguese poet, fiction writer and essayist.

Bio and work 

Born in Lourenço Marques, now Maputo, on 9 August 1949, he lived in Mozambique until 1975. He had published ten books of poetry. A large selection of that corpus of poems was collected in Desobediência, 2011. It is represented in several anthologies of contemporary Portuguese poetry. A significant number of his essays and critical writings have been collected in six volumes. In 2013 published a memoir, Um Rapaz a Arder. His poetry and prose have appeared in various magazines and anthologies in Portugal, Spain, France, Brasil, Colombia, England, Israel, USA and, in his early years (1968–1975), in Mozambique. In addition to the short story The Stratagem, published in the collective volume, has published several short stories in the magazine Egoísta. Since 2011 he writes literary criticism at the Portuguese magazine Sábado.

Personal life 
Pitta was legally married in 2010 with Jorge Neves, his partner since 1972.

Works

Poetry 

 1974 Sílaba a Sílaba
 1979 Um Cão de Angústia Progride
 1983 A Linguagem da Desordem
 1984 Olhos Calcinados
 1988 Archote Glaciar
 1991 Arbítrio
 1999 Marcas de Água
 2004 Poesia Escolhida
 2011 Y si Todo, de Repente? / Spanish anthology
 2011 Desobediência

Fiction 

 2000 Persona, short stories
 2007 Cidade Proibida, novel

Essay and critic 

 2002 Comenda de Fogo
 2003 Fractura
 2004 Metal Fundente
 2007 Intriga em Família
 2010 Aula de Poesia
 2014 Pompas Fúnebres

Memoir 

 2005 Os Dias de Veneza
 2013 Cadernos Italianos
 2013 Um Rapaz a Arder

Edited works 
 2008 Canções e Outros Poemas, António Botto.
 2008 Fátima, António Botto.
 2018 Poesia, António Botto's complete poetry.