Ana Marques Gastão

Poet Ana Marques Gastão is the first guest in the cycle "Who writes about you, Lisbon?", bringing volume L de Lisboa, the first book of poetry she published under her own name with Assírio & Alvim in 2015.

About the author

Ana Marques Gastão was born in Lisbon. She is a poet, literary critic, essayist and researcher at CLEPUL. She wrote Tempo de Morrer, Tempo para Viver (1998), Terra sem Mãe (2000), Três Vezes Deus, co-authored with António Rego Chaves and Armando Silva Carvalho (2001), Nocturnos (2002), Nós/Nudos, 25 poems about images by Paula Rego (translated into Spanish by Floriano Martins, Pen Clube Prize 2004), Lápis Mínimo (2008) and Adornos (2011). She organised the book of interviews O Falar dos Poetas (2011) and is the author of the volume of essays As Palavras Fracturadas (2013). Nós/Nudos was published in France under the title Noeuds (2007), translated by Catherine Dumas. In Brazil, she published the anthology A Definição da Noite (2003). Some of her poems have been translated into Spanish, Catalan, French, English, German, Romanian and Slovenian. She has coordinated the Gulbenkian Foundation's Colóquio-Letras magazine since 2009. She has a law degree from the Portuguese Catholic University and has been a cultural journalist for over twenty years for Diário Popular and Diário de Notícias, and a columnist for Paralelo and Artes e Leilões magazines. Since 2008, she has run the National Culture Centre's "Five Books/Five Authors" initiative as part of the Chiado Festival.