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Eduardo Pitta is a portuguese poet, fiction writer and essayist. He was born in Lourenço Marques [Maputo] on August 9th, 1949, and lived in Mozambique until 1975. He had published eight books of poetry, in which you can trace his development from hermetic expression of the colonial situation to expressionism centred on the (homo)sexual identity of the subject. A large selection of that corpus of poems was collected in Poesia Escolhida, 2004. A significant number of his essays and critical writings have been collected in four volumes. In Fractura, 2003, an essay on the homosexual condition in contemporary Portuguese literature, Pitta describes representations of homotextuality from a perspective that deals with «identity negotiations». With his trilogy of short-stories Persona, 2000 [revised ed. 2007], his writing underwent a tectonic movement. One of them, Kalahari, was translated by Alison Aiken in Chroma, a Queer Literary Journal [London]. Os Dias de Veneza, 2005, is your Venetian journal, and Cidade Proibida, 2007, your first novel. His poetry and prose have appeared in various magazines and anthologies in Portugal, Spain, France, Brasil and, in his early years (1968-1975), in Mozambique. In 2001, he edited a special issue on contemporary Portuguese literature for the French magazine Arsenal. Now, he is a literary critic at the Lisbon's newspaper Público, and columnist to literary magazine LER, where he has been poetry critic for more than a decade (1994-2006). Since 1982 he had participated in many conferences and poetry festivals in Portugal and abroad. Read in portuguese.