Luís de Montalvor, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Luís de Montalvor

Portuguese author

Date of Birth: 31-Jan-1891

Place of Birth: São Vicente, Cape Verde

Date of Death: 02-Mar-1947

Profession: writer, poet, author

Nationality: Portugal

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Luís de Montalvor (January 31, 1891 – March 2, 1947) was a Portuguese poet and was known under the pseudonym Luís da Silva Ramos. He founded the reviews Orpheu (modern Portuguese spelling: Orfeu) [Orpheus] 1914 and Centauro (Centaur) in 1916 and also worked in other reviews including Atlântida [Atlantis] (1915–20), Contemporânea (1915–26) [Contemporary], Presença and Sudoeste in 1935. In 1933, he founded Editorial Ática, Lda.
with its headquarters at a small ship at Rua das Chagas in Lisbon, in the early 1940s, he adopted the firm "Ática, S.A.R.L., Casa Editora"In 1942, he published for the publishing company Ática (Attica) on the collection of poems made by the renowned Fernando Pessoa, the first of five volumes titled Complete Works (Obras Completas) of Fernando Pessoa, the remaining were Poems by Álvaro de Campos [Poesias de Álvaro de Campos] (1944), Odes by Ricardo Reis [Odes de Ricardo Reis] (1945), Mensagem [Messages] (1945) and Poems by Alberto Caeiro [Poemas de Alberto Caeiro] (1946), under Pessoa's pseudonyms.