Fernando Pessoa

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Fernando Pessoa

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born
in Lisbon, Portugal
June 13, 1888

died
November 30, 1935

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Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa was a poet and writer.

It is sometimes said that the four greatest Portuguese poets of modern times are Fernando Pessoa. The statement is possible since Pessoa, whose name means ‘person’ in Portuguese, had three alter egos who wrote in styles completely different from his own. In fact Pessoa wrote under dozens of names, but Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis and Álvaro de Campos were – their creator claimed – full-fledged individuals who wrote things that he himself would never or could never write. He dubbed them ‘heteronyms’ rather than pseudonyms, since they were not false names but “other names”, belonging to distinct literary personalities. Not only were their styles different; they thought differently, they h...more


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  2 votes, 0.1%

J. G. Ballard (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

Flannery O'Connor (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

William Burroughs (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

Joesph Conrad (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

Josh Lanyon (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

Aldous Huxley (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

Maggie Stiefvater (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

Sylvia Plath (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

Margaret Peterson Haddix (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

Jayne Ann Krentz (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

J.K. Rowling, Jane Austen, Nicholas Sparks, L.M. Montgomery, (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

Jeanette Winterson (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

John Flanagan, Dianna Wynne Jones, Eoin Colfer, Brandon Mullis, J.R.R. Tolkein, . . . gosh too many amazing authors to name (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

Kristen Ashley (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

Kim Harrison (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

Amanda Hocking (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

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  2 votes, 0.1%

JK Rowling, Agatha Christie, John Green, Arthur Conan Doyle, Christopher Paolini, James A Owen (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

Evelyn Waugh (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

Jonathan Lethem (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

L.A Weatherly (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

Mary Higgins Clark (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

Barbara Kingsolver (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

David Gemmell (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

Kristen Ashley & J.R. Ward (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

Charlaine Harris (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

Donna Grant (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

Julie Kagawa and Carrie Jones (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

J.K. Rowling, Christopher Poalini, C.S. Lewis, and J.R.R. Tolkien (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

Sherri Tepper (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

Jackie Collins (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

JK Rowling, Meg Cabot, Allyson Condie, William Shakespeare, Robert Frost, Oscar Wilde, John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway and way too many others. (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

Cynthia Willerth (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

Ivan Turgenev (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

Glen Duncan (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

Reiner maria Rilke,james joyce,fernand pessoa,virginia woolf,charles baudelaire (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

John Scalzi, Joe Hill and Rob Stennett (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

Weis & Hickman (the duo, yes) (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

truman capote (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

MAUVE BINCHY (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

Trudi Canavan (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

Jane Austen, Margaret Peterson Haddix, Maud Hart Lovelace, J.K. Rowling, and Ally Carter (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

Derek Landy, J.K Rowling, Cathy Cassidy, Nicolas Sparks and C.S Lewis, but there are so many more that just don't come to my head now! (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

john green and kurt vonnegut (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

Shelly Crane (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Jane Hamilton (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

V.C. Andrews (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Yusuf Idris , Kafka ,Pessoa ,Galeano ,nd Borges (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

J.K.Rowling,Eoin Colfer,Aprilynne Pike,Ken Follett (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Henry James (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

James Rollins (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Jonathan Safran Foer, Truman Capote (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Jrr Tolkien, Giorgio Faletti, Dan Brown, Laurell K Hamilton, Suzanne Collins, Jane Austen, Oscar Wilde, Nietzsche, Frank Schatzing (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Jerry Spinelli (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Sidney Sheldon (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Too many to choose just one! (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

scott gandert (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Scott Gandert (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

David Eddings (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

L.J. Smith (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Frances Hodgson Burnett, Johanna Spyri, Jane Austen, Robert Arthur, Louisa May Alcott, (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Dorothy Dunnett (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Carolyn Keene (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

J.K rowling, rebecca stead, roald dahl (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

enid blyton (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Norah Lofts, Stephenie Meyer, Sean Quirk, Charlaine Harris and Mary Stewart (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Robert Crais (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Aaron Dembski-Bowden (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Melissa De La Crus (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

John Connolly (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Suzanne Collins/Lauren Oliver/Veronica Roth/Catherine Fisher (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

margaret peterson haddix (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

John Shirley (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Ken Kesey (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Sheila O'Flanagan (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

J.K. Rowling, Rick Riordan, Suzanne Collins, Darren Shan (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Scott Westerfeild, Orson Scott Card (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Julie Lessman (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Pseudonymous Bosch (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Barry Unsworth (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Johanna Lindsey (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Manly Wade Wellman (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Roger Zelazny, Richelle Mead (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

J.K. Rowling, Tamora Pierce, James Patterson,
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Poppy Z Brite (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Romain Gary (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Thomas Bernhard (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Jack London, John Steinbeck (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Lauren Kate, Alyson Noel, and Pseudonymous Bosch (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Lorrie Moore (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

A. Lee Martinez & Cherie Priest (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Bruno Schulz (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

J.K Rowling,Alyson Noel,Aprilyenne Pike,Stephenie Meyer and some more classics (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

j.k. rowling, jessica verday, jane austen, harper lee, (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Susan Cooper (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Richelle Mead and Andrea Creamer (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Samantha Young (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

BA TORTUGA (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Kristen Heitzmann (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Lisa Kleypas (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

George Bernard Shaw, Daniil Kharms, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Mark Twain, A.N. Meshcheriakov (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Philippa Gregory (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

J.K Rowling, Alyson Noel, Lauren Myrcale, Terry Goodkind, and so so many more. I just cannot name just one. (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Charles Bukowski (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Courtney Summers (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

John Locke (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Susanna Kearsley (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

John Sandford (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Lauren Conrad, Lauren Myracle, and Laura Ingalls Wilder (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

becca fitzpatrick (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Jane Austin, Irvin Yalom (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Stieg Larsson (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Judith McNaugh, Mary Balogh, SEP, Julia Quinn, Julie Garwood, Lindsey Johanna, Lindsay Sand, Sandra Brown,Lisa Kleypas, Linda Howard, Rachel Gibson, ... (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Alison Weir (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

JK Rowling, Suzanne Collins, Neal Shusterman (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Daniel Silva (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

anne rice (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Wilbur Smith (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Maria V. Snyder (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Darren Shan (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Michelle Hodkin (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Marion Zimmer Bradley (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

ML Malcolm (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Kate Flora and Carolyn McCray (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Derek Landy with Garth Nix and Ted Dekker, among others coming in close second (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Margaret Mahy, Margaret Atwood and Traci Harding (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Jeff Strand (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Anton Chekhov (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

R. A. Salvitore (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Maggie Stiefvater and Christopher Paolini (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

mohammed khudaier (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Katherine Kurtz (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

علي الطنطاوي (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Ann Brashers, Meg Cabot, Nicholas Sparks (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

none of the above (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

you and nicholas sparks and jane porter (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

jennifer l armentrout (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Minette Walters (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Stephenie Meyer, Norah Lofts, Daphne du Maurier but I have at least 30 on my page! (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Carol Goodman (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Zora Neal Hurston (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

James Morrow (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Tom Robbins hands down (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Jack Higgins (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Jim Butcher, Orson Scott Card, Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, and Diana Wynne Jones (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

J.KRowling, Michael Connelly, Jodi Picoult, paula brackston, Mary Sharratt, Dan Brown, John Grisham, (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Gaston Leroux (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

R.M.Rilke (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Anne,Emily and Charlotte Bronte,Pessoa,Tolstoy,Baudelaire and Orwell (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Joseph Heller (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

orson scott card (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

The 'steadiest' list of my favorites: Saadat Hasan Manto, Ismat Chughtai, Oscar Wilde, Isaac Asimov, Shariar Mandanipour, Terry Pratchett, Roald Dahl, and Anne Fine. (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Thomas Pynchon (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

John Jakes, David Baldachi, Louis L'Amour, Jodi Picoult, Nicholas Sparks, too many! (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Saramago (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

tom robbi s (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Daniel Pinkwater (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Tabitha Suzuma (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Robert Goddard (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

C. J. Cherryh (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

lynsay sands, sherrelyn kenyon, christine feehan, alexandra ivy, sherrelyn kenyon, gena showalter and many more (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Ken Follett, Antonia Michaelis, Jude Deveraux and Richelle Mead (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

J K rowling, Rick Riordan and Enid Blyton (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Joey W. Hill, Cherise Sinclair, D.B. Reynolds (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Michael Crichton (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Jr ward (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Heather Brewer (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

christine feehan (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

John Flanagan (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

james patterson, rick riordan, suzanne collins, ally condie, (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

So Many Old, So Many New, Mystery, Science Fiction, Romance & Drama (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

عبد الوهاب المسيري , بهاء طاهر ,المنسي قنديل ,محمود درويش,غسان كنفاني (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

susan collens (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Alexandre Dumas (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Rick Riordan and H.M. Ward (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Denis Johnson (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Daniel Dennett, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

J.R.R. Tolkien, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Jessica Day George, Shannon Hale, Donita K Paul, Brian Jacques (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Dan Abnett (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Dick Francis (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Orson Scott Card (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Michelle Kodkin (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Richelle Mead, J.K Rowling, Roald Dahl, Cassandra Clare, LJ Smith, Sarah Alderson and Kiera Cass (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

J.K. Rowling, Stephen King, John Green (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

J.K. Rowling, José Saramago, fernando pessoa (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Tess Gerritsen (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Rick Riordon! (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

George Orwell (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Alexander McCall Smith (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Jim Harrison (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Almost all the above at one time or other! (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Robyn Carr, Julie James, Sylvia Day (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, J.K. Rowling, Louis L'Amour, and Piers Anthony. (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Terrance Dicks (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

John Green, Ransom Riggs and Markus Zusak (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Harry Crews (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Paige Toon, Jane Costello, Lindsey Kelk (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Saul Bellow (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

John Green, Harper Lee, Jerry Spinelli, Gary Schmidt, Suzanne Collins (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Patricia Briggs. Christine Feehan. Patricia Cromwell. Jennifer Estep. (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Cassandra Clare, Suzanne Collins, Veronica Roth, J.K. Rowling, George R.R. Martin, J.R.Ward, Becca Fitzpactick,... (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Thomas Mann (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Depends on my mood but currently, Cherie Priest (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

John Green, Rick Riordan, Cassandra Clare, and etc (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

fitzgerald (write-in)
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

J k rowling, Enid Blyton and Rick Riordan (write-in)
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

Deeanne Gist (write-in)
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

Eduardo Hughes Galeano (write-in)
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

Don Delillo (write-in)
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

george orwell, jared diamond (write-in)
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

Norah Lofts (write-in)
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

CJ Box
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

Lidia Yuknavitch (write-in)
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

Reiner maria Rilke (write-in)
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

Sean Quirk (write-in)
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

Patricia Highsmith (write-in)
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

Michael connelly
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

Jessica Verday (write-in)
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

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