Presentation of the book "First Poem", posthumous work of Nuno Júdice

“First Poem” is the last book by Nuno Júdice, which he had prepared for publication in the year of his passing, 2024.

Manuela Júdice, the poet and essayist's wife, will present the work, accompanied by Luís Filipe Castro Mendes, also a poet.

In the introduction of this book, Manuela Júdice tells us that Nuno Júdice left three folders with poems for the book he said he was preparing. First Poem was the title he chose.

Nuno Júdice (1949-2024) was born in Mexilhoeira Grande, Portimão. He is one of the most important names in contemporary poetry. A poet and fiction writer, he published his first poetry book in 1972. A university professor and director of the magazine Colóquio-Letras of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, he received the most important national and international literary awards, including the PEN Club Award in 1985, the D. Dinis Award from the Casa de Mateus Foundation in 1990, and the Award from the Portuguese Writers Association in 1994, the latter with the book Meditation on Ruins, which was also a finalist for the European Literature Prize, Aristeion, the Great Literature Prize DST, the António Ramos Rosa National Poetry Prize, the Cesário Verde Poetry Prize, the Fernando Namora / Estoril Sol Literary Prize, the Ana Hatherly Poetry Prize, and the Criticism Prize from the Portuguese Critics Association. He also received the Ibero-American Queen Sofia Prize in 2013. In 2018, he was awarded the PEN Prize from the Galician Club and in 2021, the Great Poetry Prize Maria Amália Vaz de Carvalho from the Portuguese Writers Association (APE).