Died Amadeu Ferreira, one of the biggest promoters of the language … – publico

                 

                         
                     

                 

 
                         

He died on Sunday at his home in Lisbon, Amadeu Ferreira, writer, poet, jurist and one of the greatest defenders of the Mirandese language, announced the family, in a statement sent to newsrooms.

                     

                          Sendim Natural, Miranda do Douro municipality, Amadeu Ferreira was born on 29 June 1950. About a year fighting a cancer in the brain.

He was president of Associaçon de la Lhéngua i Mirandesa Culture, president of the Academy of Tras-os-Montes Letters, vice president of the Securities Market Commission (CMVM), visiting professor at the Law Faculty of the New University of Lisbon, Member of the Board from Bragança Polytechnic Institute and since 2004, Commander of the Order of Merit of the Republic.

Author and translator of a vast work in Portuguese and Mirandese, also with aliases Fracisco Niebro, Marcus Miranda and Fonso Roixo, Amadeu Ferreira makes scientific and literary works, in poetry and prose. Among many others, published in the area of ​​law, Murder Privileged and Securities Law ; in poetry, Cebadeiros , Ars Vivendi / Ars Moriendi and Guiding ; prose, La yaws de la Tenerie / Fire Time , Cuntas of Tiu Jouquin, Lhéngua Mirandesa – Manifesto an Anthem Form and Said Dezideiros / Proverbs Mirandeses .

translated into the language mirandesa works as The Four Gospels , The Lusiad , Luís Vaz de Camões, Post , Fernando Pessoa, two volumes of Asterix , and works of Horace, Virgil and Catullus, among many others.

It was, moreover, developer, especially in Mirandese, various media, including the Messenger of Bragança , the Tras-os-Montes Journal , CIVIL and MirandumFM radio and published more than three thousand texts, almost exclusively literary, blogs as Fuontes l Aire , CuMo Quien Bai Camino and Froles Mirandese .

His biography and his latest book, Belheç / Old Age , is scheduled for release March 5, at the Law School of New University of Lisbon.

Sticking to his will, the body will be cremated. There will be no funeral

There will be two tributes in his memory this week:. One on Tuesday, from mid-afternoon, in Lisbon, in the House of Tras-os-Montes, and one in Wednesday afternoon, the House of Sendim of Culture, where friends may pay their respects, reading the writer’s authorship of texts or simply being present.