Portuguese writer, artist, filmmaker and philologist
Ana Hatherly |
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Born | Anna Maria de Lourdes Rocha Alves Hatherly (1929-05-08)May 8, 1929
Porto, Portugal |
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Died | August 5, 2015(2015-08-05) (aged 86)
Lisbon, Portugal |
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Known for | writer, artist |
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Ana Hatherly (8 May 1929 – 5 August 2015) was a Portuguese academic, poet, visual artist, essayist, filmmaker, painter, and writer. She was considered one of the pioneers of the
experimental poetry and
experimental literature movement in Portugal.
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Biography
Hatherly was born in
Porto, Portugal, in 1929.
[1] She obtained a degree in Germanic
philology from the
University of Lisbon and a
doctorate in
Hispanic studies from the
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, and was also trained in both film and music.
[1] Hatherly was a professor of human and social sciences at
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, where she founded the university's Institute of Portuguese Studies.
[1] She utilized film, visual arts, and poetry in her work, which included the
avant-garde.
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In 1958, she started her literary career with the publication of Um Ritmo Perdido, a collection of poems. Her poetry books include Um Calculador de Improbabilidades (2001), O Pavão Negro (2003), Itinerários (2003), and Fibrilações (2005). Hatherly has published poetry, essays, and fiction that have been translated into European languages, Japanese and Chinese.
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[4] She later became Emeritus Professor and a founding member of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She was also the Chair of the Portuguese
PEN Club.
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Hatherly was interested in the visual aspects of poetry, which led to her successfully exploring visual mediums of art, such as painting and films.
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 Olivais cemetery.
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Poetry
- Um Ritmo Perdido (1958)
- As Aparências (1959)
- A Dama e o Cavaleiro (1960)
- Sigma (1965)
- Estruturas Poéticas - Operação 2 (1967)
- Eros Frenético (1968)
- 39 Tisanas (1969)
- Anagramático (1970)
- 63 Tisanas: (40-102) (1973)
- Poesia: 1958-1978 (1980)
- Ana Viva e Plurilida (1982)
- O Cisne Intacto (1983)
- A Cidade das Palavras (1988)
- Volúpsia (1994)
- 351 Tisanas (1997)
- Rilkeana (1999)
- Um Calculador de Improbabilidades (2001)
- O Pavão Negro (2003)
- Itinerários (2003)
- Fibrilações (2005)
- A Idade da Escrita e outros poemas (2005)
- 463 Tisanas (2006)
- A Neo-Penélope (2007)
Museum collections
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Calouste Gulbenkian Museum,
Lisbon,
Portugal
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- Círculo de Artes Plásticas de Coimbra,
Coimbra, Portugal
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Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery,
Vancouver,
British Columbia
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Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art,
Porto, Portugal
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- The Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon, Portugal
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National Museum of Women in the Arts
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References
Further reading
- Zink, Rui. "The Man Who Shot Ana Hatherly." Theory in Action 13, no. 4 (10, 2020): 27-38. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.3798/tia.1937-0237.2048.
External links
- Calouste Gulbenkian Museum. “Ana Hatherly and the Baroque. In a Garden Made of Ink” Last modified October 25, 2017. https://gulbenkian.pt/museu/en/ana-hatherly-and-the-baroque-in-garden-made-of-ink/
- Elmcip. “Person: Ana Hatherly”, https://elmcip.net/person/ana-hatherly
- Luís Alves de Matos. “Ana Hatherly – The Intelligent Hand – Trailer” Vimeo, March 18, 2011. https://vimeo.com/21200605
- Natalie Ferris. “The Intelligent Hand: Ana Hatherly, Asemic Writing, Visualizing the Creative Act” Modernism/Modernity, https://modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/ferris-intelligent-hand-ana-hatherly
- PoemsfromthePortuguese. “Ana Hatherly”. http://www.poemsfromtheportuguese.org/Ana_Hatherly
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