Co-sponsored by the Center for European Studies and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
A specialist on the work of Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith is an award-winning author and translator; his most recent book, Pessoa: A Biography was a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Biography. In conversation with Mariana Oliveira, PhD student in Portuguese at UW-Madison, Zenith will discuss Pessoa’s experiments in literature, politics, sexuality, and spirituality. He will talk as well about his method for drawing a portrait of the shy office worker lurking behind the many personae he called heteronyms.