Pessoa: A Biography

Pessoa: A Biography is a biography of Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa by Richard Zenith. It was published in 2021 in New York by Liveright Publishing Corporation. It was also published as Pessoa: An Experimental Life in 2021 in London by Allen Lane.

Critical reception

The book was reviewed by Brinda Bose in Telegraph India,[1] Parul Sehgal and Benjamin Moser in The New York Times,[2][3] David Sexton in The Sunday Times,[4] Peter Conrad in The Guardian,[5] and Anahid Nersessian in The New York Review of Books.[6]

Accolades

The book was selected as one of the best biographies of 2021 by Kirkus Reviews,[7] and as one of The New York Times Critics' Top Books of 2021.[8] It was a finalist for 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.[9]

References

  1. ^ Bose, Brinda (2022-04-03). "Many poets in one". Telegraph India. Retrieved 2022-11-19.
  2. ^ Sehgal, Parul (2021-07-13). "'Pessoa' Is the Definitive and Sublime Life of a Genius and His Many Alternate Selves". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-11-19.
  3. ^ Moser, Benjamin (2021-07-13). "Fernando Pessoa: Office Worker, Occultist, Galaxy of Writers". The New York Times.
  4. ^ Sexton, David (2021-08-01). "Pessoa by Richard Zenith review — a forgotten modernist genius?". The Sunday Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2022-11-19.
  5. ^ Conrad, Peter (2021-08-02). "Pessoa: An Experimental Life review – a portrait with bags of personality". The Guardian.
  6. ^ Nersessian, Anahid (2021-10-07). "The Escape Artist". The New York Review of Books.
  7. ^ "Best Biographies of 2021". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 2022-11-19.
  8. ^ "Times Critics' Top Books of 2021". The New York Times. 2021-12-15. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-11-19.
  9. ^ "Pulitzer Prize in Biography". Pulitzer Prize. Retrieved 2022-11-19.


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