The poet, essayist, and literary critic Eugénio Lisboa, a specialist in the work of the writer José Régio (1901-1969), died this Tuesday morning in Lisbon at the age of 93, a source from the publishing house Guerra & Paz confirmed to the Lusa news agency.

According to the same source, the author was hospitalized at Curry Cabral Hospital, where he died of cancer.

Eugénio Lisboa was born on May 25, 1930, in what was then Lourenço Marques (now Maputo), in Mozambique, and left behind a vast body of work, including more than twenty titles of essays and literary criticism, poetry, diaries, and memoirs, as well as anthologies of Portuguese authors published in the United Kingdom.

He dedicated himself to the study of Portuguese literature, particularly Neorealism, and published his first work in 1957, “José Régio. Antologia, Nota Bibliográfica e Estudo” (Anthology, Bibliographical Note and Study), an author to whom he dedicated much of his work. This was followed by, among others, “O Segundo Modernismo em Portugal” (1977) and “Poesia Portuguesa: do “Orpheu” ao Neorrealismo” (Portuguese Poetry: from Orpheu to Neorealism) (1980).