Burghard Baltrusch

Burghard Baltrusch is the International José Saramago Chair at the University of Vigo, member of the research group BiFeGa and of the Instituto de Literatura Comparada of the University of Porto. His research focusses on Fernando Pessoa, José Saramago, contemporary poetry and translation theory. Currently, he coordinates the research project, Contemporary Poetry and Politics (POEPOLIT, FFI2016-77584-P). Some of his published or edited volumes are Bewußtsein und Erzählungen der Moderne im Werk Fernando Pessoas (1997), Kritisches Lexikon der Romanischen Gegenwartsliteraturen (5 vols., with W.-D. Lange et al., 1999), Non-Lyric Discourses in Contemporary Poetry (with I. Lourido, 2012), Lupe Gómez: libre e estranxeira – Estudos e traducións (2013), O que transformou o mundo é a necessidade e não a utopia – Estudos sobre utopia e ficção em José Saramago (2014). https://uvigo.academia.edu/BurghardBaltrusch.

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