Rui Cóias

Rui Cóias was born in Lisbon. He graduated in Law from the University of Coimbra, has a postgraduate degree in Legal Sciences, he is a Jurist, and also studies Philosophy. He is a poet, essaysit and also translator.

 

He is the author of the books A Função do Geógrafo e A Ordem do Mundo. His last collection of poems Europa, includes, among others, a series of texts based on the Great War of 1914–1918, written on the occasion of a fellowship awarded by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication. This is indeed the theme of his next book, which he is developing in the context of a new scholarship awarded by the Portuguese Ministry of Culture. This book was recently published in Mexico (Las Márgenes Sombrias) and in Holland (Laat de stilte) with translations to Spanish and to Dutch.

 

Rui Cóias is also published in Belgium, La Nature de la Vie, and in France, L`ordre du monde — this publication, by L`Harmattan Publishing House, had a new improved edition in France in 2019.

 

He has also written essays. In his work, the distinctions between time and space, between the personal and the impersonal, are imprecise. In the background it is all a vast territory through which travel and travel in space and time establish connections with the landscape and memory, in a project of definition and naming of the intelligible world. Happiness, however uncertain, fleeting, is always within reach, or within our retreat, and we also, at all times, pursue the dark beauty of the world.

 

He has also published in several anthologies and publications in Portugal and abroad and presented his work in Spain, Macedonia, Switzerland, France, USA, India, Dubai, Serbia, Turkey and represented Portugal in several important festivals and literary meetings.

 

He is also part of the Portuguese authors that integrate the web platforms: Poetry International Web (Rotterdam), Poems from the Portuguese (Portugal) and Lyricline (Germany). He has a travel and literature blog, and lives in Lisbon.

During this year, an anthology of his poems will be published in Macedonia, translated into Macedonian, and his new book will be published in Portugal.