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Miguel Oliveira is a Portuguese writer. He was born in 1979 in Hamburg, where he frequented the Emil-Krause High-School. Afterwards he moved to Madeira, where he studied Anglistic and German Philology. He taught at the University of Madeira and ISAL, a private academic Institute. From 2003 onwards, he directed the Language Lyceum in Funchal. Oliveira was appointed head of the Forum for Philosophical Studies of the Forum for Sciences, Arts and Culture in Madeira. He then worked for the John Dos Passos Studies Centre and the Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs (DRAC). In 2005 he commissioned the bicentennial documentary exhibition on Friedrich von Schiller on Madeira Island. Furthermore he helped founding the John Dos Passos’ Portuguese Literary Prize and was invited to chair its first jury. He eventually became a permanent member of the advisory board of DRAC’s Council on Reading, whose aim it is to sponsor the publication of young authors. In 2007 Oliveira published the Portuguese biography of the German Nobel Laureate Günter Grass as well as various scientific monographs on the North American writer John Dos Passos. He also translated Ödön von Horváth’s Being Youth without God into Portuguese. Then he acted as councillor for the Austrian Bureau of the Dialogue Among Civilizations, whose purpose was to bring closer together and strengthen the friendship ties between the Austrian and Portuguese peoples, through exchange projects in the areas of education, science and culture. Oliveira was awarded two honours of merit: one by the American Consulate, the other by the Regional Government of Madeira. Ever since the launching of Sem Título, Oliveira’s most renowned volume of poetry, he is considered a major figure of Madeiran contemporary literature.

Works published

Works published in Portuguese:

Günter Grass: A Passo de Caranguejo, Biografia Com Testemunhos de Mário Soares, Yvette Centeno e João Barrento (ISBN: 978-972-8532-02-4)

Sem Título (ISBN: 978-989-95704-6-7)

Ensaios… (ISBN: 978-3-8370-9410-7)

Works published in German:

Vom Scheitern eines Traums, John Dos Passos und Migration (ISBN: 978-3-8370-0768-8)

Kein Leben vor dem Tod, Der Versuch einer Biographie (ISBN: 978-3-8370-0314-7)

Works published in English:

John Dos Passos’ Influence on Günter Grass, A Study on Two Memory-Writers and Two Distinct Approaches towards Migration as a Literary Theme (ISBN: 978-3-8370-6624-1)

Classified and Confidential, FBI File N. 972497, Subject: John Dos Passos (ISBN: 978-3-8370-7002-6)

Links

http://migueloliveira.jimdo.com

http://www.parceria.a.m.pereira.com/guntergrass.html

http://www.funchal500anos.com/04_detalhe.asp?ano=2008&id=271

http://www.bod.de/index.php?id=296&objk_id=207389