Pessoa: A Biography

Pessoa: A Biography is a biography of Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa by Richard Zenith. It was published in 2021 in New York by Liveright Publishing Corporation. It was also published as Pessoa: An Experimental Life in 2021 in London by Allen Lane.

Critical reception

The book was reviewed by Brinda Bose in Telegraph India,{{Cite web |last=Bose |first=Brinda |date=2022-04-03 |title=Many poets in one |url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/culture/books/review-pessoa-a-biography-by-richard-zenith/cid/1854390 |access-date=2022-11-19 |website=Telegraph India}} Parul Sehgal and Benjamin Moser in The New York Times,{{Cite news |last=Sehgal |first=Parul |date=2021-07-13 |title='Pessoa' Is the Definitive and Sublime Life of a Genius and His Many Alternate Selves |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/13/books/review-pessoa-biography-richard-zenith.html |access-date=2022-11-19 |issn=0362-4331}}Moser, Benjamin (2021-07-13). [https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/13/books/review/fernando-pessoa-biography-richard-zenith.html?searchResultPosition=1 "Fernando Pessoa: Office Worker, Occultist, Galaxy of Writers"]. The New York Times. David Sexton in The Sunday Times,{{Cite news |last=Sexton |first=David |date=2021-08-01|title=Pessoa by Richard Zenith review — a forgotten modernist genius? |language=en |work=The Sunday Times|url=https://www.thetimes.com/culture/books/article/pessoa-by-richard-zenith-review-5ptvpsmm5 |access-date=2022-11-19 |issn=0140-0460}} Peter Conrad in The Guardian,Conrad, Peter (2021-08-02). [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/aug/02/pessoa-an-experimental-life-review-a-portrait-with-bags-of-personality "Pessoa: An Experimental Life review – a portrait with bags of personality"]. The Guardian. and Anahid Nersessian in The New York Review of Books.Nersessian, Anahid (2021-10-07). [https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2021/10/07/fernandopessoa-escape-artist/ "The Escape Artist"]. The New York Review of Books.

Accolades

The book was selected as one of the best biographies of 2021 by Kirkus Reviews,{{Cite web |title=Best Biographies of 2021 |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-lists/best-biographies-of-2021/ |access-date=2022-11-19 |website=Kirkus Reviews |language=en}} and as one of The New York Times Critics' Top Books of 2021.{{Cite news |date=2021-12-15 |title=Times Critics' Top Books of 2021 |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/15/books/critics-top-books-2021.html |access-date=2022-11-19 |issn=0362-4331}} It was a finalist for 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.{{Cite web |title=Pulitzer Prize in Biography |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/222 |access-date=2022-11-19 |website=Pulitzer Prize |language=en}}

References

Category:2021 non-fiction books

Category:English-language non-fiction books

Category:W. W. Norton & Company books

Category:Fernando Pessoa