Alice Vieira

É preciso agora ter muito cuidado com as palavras

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É preciso agora ter muito cuidado com as palavras

pronunciá-las olhando sempre demoradamente para o lado
como se fossem os nomes escancarados
de amantes clandestinos
que é preciso guardar na carteira
porque nunca se sabe tu o disseste quem
ao fim da tarde nos poderá denunciar

por isso para cada sílaba terei agora de encontrar
um silêncio novo
porque do teu amor não sobrou absolutamente nada
que possa encobrir nos meus olhos
os olhos que foram teus e em que
todas as madrugadas eu nascia

queria apenas por momento entender
o que foi que te fez esquecer tão depressa
o tempo que habitámos no lume das noites que
pareciam só nossas

quando nos debruçávamos no parapeito das madrugadas
e a cidade espalhava veneno
nas margens do rio

ouve:

também tu morres agora todas as noites
um pouco mais

e em todos os lugares que te perderam
é triste o som das águas

Alice Vieira

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* 20.03.1943, Lisbon, Portugal
Vive en: Lisbon, Portugal

Alice Vieira wrote Rosa, minha irmã Rosa, her

first book for young readers at the instigation of her children. Subsequently,

encouraged by her husband, journalist and writer Mário Castrim, she put the book

forward for the Children’s and Young People’s Literature Prize awarded to

commemorate the International Year of the Child (1979).

After winning the prize, Alice Vieira continued to write books for younger readers, and

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in 1981 began to use Portuguese History as a source of thematic material. Since then,

her fiction for children and young people has alternated between history-based

narratives (Promontório da Lua), texts dealing with contemporary issues –

consumerism, the influence of television on how children are brought up – and the

issues affecting young people in everyday life: friendship, loneliness, family

relationships, how children relate to adults (Os olhos de Ana Marta) or how children

relate to senior citizens (Às dez a porta fecha; Um fio de fumo nos confins do mar).

Alice Vieira considers herself to be an urban writer: her narratives are set above all in

the social context of the Lisbon middle class and are based on her close observation of

reality. Her understanding of the issues affecting young people is enhanced by her

contact with other authors and young people in sessions at schools and public libraries,

where she promotes her work and children’s literature in general. She began these

sessions when she was still a journalist.

As a teenager she began writing for the «Juvenil» supplement of Diário de Lisboa,

which published the first attempts at literary work of many young talents of the time and

was coordinated by Alice Vieira from 1968 to 1970. In the meantime, in 1964 she had

published a volume of poetry entitled De estarmos vivos and in 1977 she brought out a

volume of short stories (Um nome para Setembro), aimed this time at an adult

audience. She was not to return to adult literature until the 1990s. In 1975 she became

a full-time journalist at Diário de Notícias, where she coordinated the «Cultura / Arte e

Espectáculos» section and directed the «Catraio» children’s supplement, which

published work produced by schoolchildren from all over the country. Also at Diário de

Notícias, from 1981 onwards she was responsible for a section on literary criticism of

children’s and young people’s literature - «Ler(zinho)» - and she developed a similar

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section in the «Guide for Parents and Educators» of the Rua Sésamo (the Portuguese

version of Sesame Street) magazine.

She gave up full-time journalism in 1991 in order to devote herself full time to her

writing, but she still publishes regularly in various periodicals and women’s magazines.

She used reporting techniques when she returned to writing for adults and, after long

research, published Esta Lisboa, with photographs by António Pedro Ferreira. The

book was published in 1994 – Lisbon’s year as European City of Culture – and takes

the reader on a guided tour of the most famous sites in Lisbon as well as the less wellknown

corners of the city, showing a Lisbon in transformation, linked to its past by

legend and history. In Praias de Portugal, with photographs by Maurício de Abreu, an

album produced under the aegis of the Lisbon Exposition, Expo’98, she once again

used the journalistic techniques that had served her so well in her guide to Lisbon, this

time taking the reader on a tour of the country’s beaches and fishing villages.

In 1984 Alice Vieira was awarded the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Children’s

Literature Prize for the best text published in 1983-84 - Este Rei que eu escolhi. Ten

years later, her name was put forward for the International Board on Books for Young

People Hans Christian Andersen Prize, and her book Os olhos de Ana Marta was

chosen for the honour list. Her name was put forward for the prize again in 1992. In

1996, her life work won her the Grande Prémio de Literatura para Crianças (Children’s

Literature Prize), awarded by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. In 1992 and 1998

translations of Rosa, minha irmã Rosa and Os olhos de Ana Marta, respectively, were

put forward for the ‘Deutscher Jungendliteraturpreis’ (German Young People’s

Literature Prize).

Alice Vieira one of the most widely translated and published Portuguese authors:

several of her works are included on the list of notable works for children and young

people drawn up by the International Young People’s Library of Munich.

In 2007 she was awarded the prize Maria Amália Vaz de Carvalho for Poetry, with the

work Dois corpos tombando na água.

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