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Gastão Santana Franco da Cruz (Faro, 20 July 1941) is a Portuguese poet, literary critic and theatre director.

He graduated in Germanic Philology from the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Lisbon. He was a high school teacher and a lecturer of Portuguese in King’s College, which belongs to the University of London.

As a poet, he initially took part in the collective publication of Poesia 61 (that gathered Gastão Cruz, Casimiro de Brito, Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão, Luiza Neto Jorge and Maria Teresa Horta), one of the most influential contributions for the renovation of the Portuguese poetic language in the 60s. As a literary critic, he led the magazine Outubro and collaborated in several newspapers and magazines throughout the 60s - Seara Nova, O Tempo e o Modo or Os Cadernos do Meio-Dia (published under the supervision of Casimiro de Brito and António Ramos Rosa). That collaboration was assembled in a book, entitled A Poesia Portuguesa Hoje (Todays Portuguese Poetry) (1973). To this day, the book remains as a reference for the study of the Portuguese poetry of the 60s.

Linked to theater, Gastão Cruz was one of the founders of the Grupo de Teatro Hoje (1976-1977), to which he directed plays from Crommelynck, Strindberg, Camus, Tchekov and its own adaptation of “Uma Abelha na Chuva “ (1977), by Carlos de Oliveira. Some of them where translated for the first time by the poet. He was also one of the founders of the Grupo de Teatro de Letras, in 1965.

Gastão Cruz’ literary path includes the translation of names like William Blake, Jean Cocteau, Jude Stéfan and Shakespeare. “As Doze Canções de Blake “, which he translated, are part of his poetic bibliography.

His work entitled Rua de Portugal (The street of Portugal) was awarded with the Grande Prémio de Poesia (The Great Poetry Prize) by the Portuguese Association of Writers in 2004. In 2009, A Moeda do Tempo (The Time’s Coin) earned the Prize for Correntes d’Escritas.

Poetry

 * A Morte Percutiva - in Poesia 61 (1961)
 * Hematoma (1961)
 * A Doença (1963)
 * As Aves (1969)
 * Teoria da Fala (1972)
 * Campânula (1978)
 * Órgão de Luzes (1990)
 * As Leis do Caos (1990)
 * Transe (1992)
 * As Pedras Negras (1995)
 * Poemas Reunidos (1999)
 * Crateras (2000)
 * Rua de Portugal (2002)
 * Repercussão (2004)
 * A Moeda do Tempo (2006)
 * Escarpas (2010)
 * Observação do Verão (2011)
 * Fogo (2013)
 * Óxido (2015)
 * Existência (2017)

Essay

 * A Poesia Portuguesa Hoje (1973; 1979 – 2ª ed., revista)

Collections

 * Os Poemas (2009)