For Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, the immediate memory of the author of "Labyrinthus" is centered on the collective publication "Poesia 61", placing him in the "group of poets who, almost like a manifesto, moved away from narrative, confessional or sentimental writing styles and introduced a renewed syntactic and lexical demand" in that year of 1961. In a note of regret published on the website of the Presidency of the Republic on the Internet, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa recalls that, at the beginning of the 1960s, "Casimiro de Brito had already done literary journalism in the Algarve press, founded a poetry collection, published three books and co-directed, with [the poet] António Ramos Rosa, the 'Cadernos do Meio-Dia'", foreshadowing his action, for more than 60 years, in defense of literature and in particular of poetry and its authors. The President of the Republic also recalls that the "abundant work" of Casimiro de Brito, collected in books such as "Ode & Ceia", "followed different paths", highlighting "love lyrics and dialogue with oriental poetics", without forgetting his books of essays, aphorisms and fiction. "A militant for causes, and for his class [...], he was an affable, generous and enthusiastic man, who embodied a certain idea of poetry and the poetization of life", concludes Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, about the holder of the insignia of the Order of Infante D. Henrique. The Minister of Culture, Dalila Rodrigues, also expressed "deep regret" for the death of Casimiro de Brito, recalling his career and the various awards with which the writer's work was distinguished, such as the Grand Prize for Poetry from the Portuguese Writers' Association, for the book "Labyrinthus" (1981), the Versilia Prize, from Viareggio for the Best Complete Foreign Work, for "Ode & Ceia" (1985), and the Poetry Prize from the P.E.N. Club, for the book "Opus Affettuoso followed by Última Núpcia" (1997). The Portuguese poet and fiction writer Casimiro de Brito died today, at the age of 86, of natural causes, in Braga, where he had lived since 2020. Born in Loulé, in 1938, Casimiro Cavaco Correia de Brito has published more than 50 works, many of them translated into more than 30 languages, in a literary career that dates back to 1955. His work also includes titles such as "Imitação do prazer" and "Pátria sensível", in fiction, and "Negação da Morte", "Corpo Sitiado" and "Subitamente o Silêncio", in poetry. With Teresa Salema he wrote the novel "Nós, outros", at the end of the 1970s. He was vice-president of the Portuguese Writers' Association and president of the Portuguese P.E.N. Club as well as the Association Européenne pour la Promotion de la Poésie. Read Also: The writer Casimiro de Brito died at the age of 86 (Portuguese version)