
Born in Lourenço Marques, Mozambique (1976). He received a PhD and a master’s degree in Theory of Literature from the Nova University Lisbon, where he defended the theses Réplica, Ruptura, Recomeço: A Passagem de Pessoa no Espaço Literário (PhD) and O Espaço sem Volta: dos Pequenos Poemas em Prosa a Os Passos em Volta (MA), both under the supervision of Silvina Rodrigues Lopes. He graduated in Journalism from the University of Coimbra. He is the author of the books Nietzsche, Pessoa, Borges: por trás das máscaras (in)voluntárias do acaso (2004) and O espaço sem volta: do spleen de Baudelaire aos passos de Herberto Helder (2008). He wrote the entry “Rimbaud” in Dicionário de Fernando Pessoa e do Modernismo Português, coordinated by Fernando Cabral Martins.