Facts about Fernando Pessoa

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   Pessoa wrote under his own name in Portuguese literary magazines while simultaneously publishing his heteronyms' work in the same journals during the 1920s and 1930s.

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   Between 1912 and 1914, Fernando Pessoa experienced a sudden creative awakening that he called the Triumphal Day, during which he rapidly composed poems attributed to his major heteronyms Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis, and Álvaro de Campos.

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   Pessoa's poem The Waste Land manuscript was never completed, though he drafted fragments in English between 1920 and 1930 exploring themes of urban alienation.

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   Pessoa worked as a commercial correspondent and advertising copywriter in Lisbon throughout the 1900s and 1920s while developing his literary heteronyms in private.

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   In 1935, the year of his death, Fernando Pessoa left behind approximately 27,000 unpublished manuscript pages stored in a leather trunk discovered only in 1988.

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   Over 140 heteronyms were created by Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa between 1914 and 1935, each with distinct writing styles and biographical details.

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