This initiative by the Leya publishing group, which publishes the work of the author of "A Noção do Poema", will feature António Carlos Cortez, a profound connoisseur of Nuno Júdice's poetic work, which was well expressed in the book "Um Canto na Espessura dos Textos", entirely dedicated to the poet.

The poet - and professor of Portuguese Literature, essayist and literary critic - will talk with guests and close friends of the honoree, from whom some poems will be read and stories will be recalled.

Not only friends, but also readers and admirers of Nuno Júdice are invited to participate in this tribute, who will have an opportunity to celebrate the man, the poet, the translator, the intellectual and author of a work applauded and awarded, nationally and internationally, highlights the publisher, in a statement.

Nuno Júdice died on March 17 of this year, leaving a literary work that totals nearly 80 titles, which extend to short stories, novels and essays, the last of which was the book of poems "Uma Colheita de Silêncios", published in 2023.

In this book, the poet speaks of the world around him, multiplying historical references, as well as to art and literature, to address these "silences" that come from the passage of time, and that are everything or almost everything.

For Nuno Júdice, "to write a poem is to access a primordial time", wrote António Carlos Cortez, in an analysis of the writer's work published in the Jornal de Letras, Artes e Ideias (JL), on March 9, 2022, when the 50th anniversary of the publication of his first book was celebrated.

For the poet born in Mexilhoeira Grande, in Portimão, in the district of Faro, in 1949, the most relevant thing in his poetry was the image, the possibility of seeing and showing, "what remains in the words of what was lived".

In addition to this tribute, Leya highlights, among the initiatives planned for the Lisbon Book Fair, the visit of the Spanish writer Fernando Aramburu, author of the famous "Pátria" and "O Regresso dos Andorinhões", who will be present on Thursday, the 30th, to present his latest novel, "Filhos da Fábula", and talk to Portuguese readers.

On the same day, the writer João Ricardo Pedro, author of the novel that won the 2011 Leya Prize, "O teu rosto será o último", the director Luís Filipe Rocha, who adapted the work to cinema, and the journalist Rui Lagartinho will be talking.

"O Teu Rosto Será o Último", a book that brought the author out of anonymity, addresses several moments in Portugal's recent history, from the colonial war to April 25.

Luís Filipe Rocha's film adaptation is scheduled to premiere on June 6, with interpretations by Rita Durão, Nuno Nunes, Vincent Wallenstein and Adriano Luz, and explores the story of a piano boy prodigy, against the backdrop of the saga of a family marked by the long years of dictatorship, political repression and colonial war.

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