Language: English.

Programe

18:30-19:00: Pure Disquiet": conference by Jerónimo Pizarro on the Book of the Disquiet: Titular Chair of Portuguese Studies Fernando Pessoa Camões I.P. (2011-Present) at Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.

18:30-18:50: Presentation of the new Swedish edition of The Book of the Disquiet (publishing house Modernista), by Örjan Sjögren, literary translator.

Q&A

Jerónimo Pizarro (Colombia/Portugal)

Professor, translator, critic and editor, Jerónimo Pizarro is responsible for most of the new editions and new series of texts by Fernando Pessoa published in Portugal since 2006. Professor at the University of the Andes, holder of the Portuguese Studies Chair at the Camões Institute in Colombia and the Eduardo Lourenço Prize (2013), Pizarro once again opened Pessoa's vaults and rediscovered Fernando Pessoa's Private Library, to use the title of one of the books in his bibliography.

He was the commissioner for Portugal's visit to the Bogotá International Book Fair (FILBo) and has been coordinating the visit of Portuguese-speaking writers to Colombia for several years. He is co-editor of Pessoa Plural magazine and assiduous organizer of conferences and exhibitions. He wrote, with Carlos Pittella, the essay How Fernando Pessoa Can Change Your Life (2017).

Since 2013, he has directed the Coleção Pessoa na Tinta-da-china, in Portugal and Brazil, which includes new editions of the complete works of Alberto Caeiro, Álvaro de Campos and Ricardo Reis, of the Book of Disquiet, of Faust, of the theater and of the texts Pessoa's politicians, as well as several essays on Pessoa's literary universe. Ler Pessoa, a synthesis book about the poet is his most recent book. He also edited the «Minimum Anthologies» of poetry and prose by Fernando Pessoa.

Örjan Sjögren (Sweden)

Örjan Sjögren has been translating from Portuguese and English for more than two decades. Together with the translator Hanna Axén, he ran his own publishing house Boca. He has been an important introducer of new books and authors from Portuguese speaking countries such as António Lobo Antunes (Portugal) and Clarice Lispector (Brazil). In 2014, he was awarded the prize for Translation of the Year 2014 of Brazilian Portuguese author Daniel Galeras (Med blod i skägget-Norstedts). His newest translation from Portuguese to Swedish is the translation of Pessoa’s The Book of the Disquiet (to be launched in the end of May 2023) by the Swedish publishing house Modernista.