Mundo Literário

Mundo literário: semanário de crítica e informação literária, científica e artística (Portuguese for "World Literature") was a Portuguese review published in Lisbon from 1946 to 1948.[1]

The seminary's weekly director-general was Jaime Cortesão Casimiro and its literary head was Adolfo Casais Monteiro, they formed a directive body to the journal, Emil Andersen and Luís de Sousa Rebelo. Its creation occurs of a context of lack of freedom of the press, being in the sights of censorship. 53 issues were made.[1] A previous leaflet announced the coming of the weekly, which brought up-to-date information in culture, it covered literature, theatre, cinema, scientific views, lecture tribunal, plastic arts, books and more.

Writers included António José Saraiva, João Gaspar Simões, Augusto Abelaira, Pedro Homem de Mello, Eugénio de Andrade, Matilde Rosa Araújo, Jacinto do Prado Coelho, Vitorino Magalhães Godinho, Alexandre O'Neill, Alves Redol, José Régio, Jorge de Sena, Joel Serrão, Fernando Namora, Edmundo Curvelo, Mário Sacramento, António Branquinho da Fonseca, Aguinaldo Brito Fonseca, Rui Grácio, Diogo de Macedo, Luís Francisco Rebello, Murilo Mendes, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Castro Soromenho, António Sérgio, Alexandre Pinheiro Torres, Manuela Porto, Cândido Costa Pinto, António Pedro, Álvaro Salema, Júlio Pomar, Abel Manta, José Ernesto de Sousa, Mário Novais, Pedro da Silveira, Fernando de Azevedo, Rómulo de Carvalho, João José Cochofel, Nataniel Costa, Mário Dionísio and Sebastião da Gama.[1]