Francisco José Viegas

Francisco José Viegas (1962) is a writer and editor at Quetzal. He is the director of the magazine “Ler” and has also directed the magazine “Grande Reportagem” and Casa Fernando Pessoa. He has contributed to various newspapers and magazines and created radio and television programmes. Highlights of his work include poetry books (“Metade da Vida”, “O Puro e o Impuro”, “Se Me Comovesse o Amor” and “Deixar um Verso a Meio”, which collects his complete poetry) and novels such as “Lourenço Marques”, “Longe de Manaus” (Grande Prémio de Romance da Associação Portuguesa de Escritores 2005), “O Mar em Casablanca”, “O Colecionador de Erva”, “A Luz de Pequim” (Prémio Pen Clube, Prémio Fernando Namora, 2020) and “Melancholia”, among others.