Colóquio
A biannual journal of thought and creation, published by the Gulbenkian Foundation since 1959, with a special focus on Portuguese-language cultures.
Drawing on literature, it offers critical and contemporary reflections on a wide range of artistic fields, from the visual and performing arts to music, architecture, and other contemporary forms of expression.
Colóquio 221 – Camões: novas artes, novo engenho
Colóquio presents an issue dedicated to the various forms of the posthumous legacy of the work and figure of Luís de Camões, both from a critical perspective and through an examination of a series of reinterpretations by artists and thinkers from a wide range of times and places.
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Essay
Fourteen essays on Camões – though not necessarily pro-Camões – dedicated to his work but not limited to it, covering poetry, painting, film, theater, and dance, with contributions from Raquel Henriques da Silva and Miguel Tamen, Carlos Pereira dos Santos and Isabel Almeida, Rui Lage, Sérgio Dias Branco, and Sofia de Sousa Silva, among others. The section’s grand finale features a text by Ana Cristina Cesar on 'Os Lusíadas', never before published in Portugal
Unpublished works
By Almada Negreiros, Gonçalo M. Tavares, Julia de Souza and Almeida Faria.
Criticism
Around 40 books from the 21st century selected and commented on by different readers. Notes on songs, editions, translations, journals and reviews.
Photography
The images from the series 'Na Ponta dos Dedos', created in 2016 during the restoration of the Monument to the Discoveries by Luís Pavão and Rodrigo Tiago, show that the types of projects Camões has been involved in do not always involve books.
About Colóquio
Colóquio (Arts and Letters) was first published in 1959 and, following a split in 1970, gave rise in 1971 to Colóquio/Letras (1971–2025).
With over six decades of history, Colóquio stands in the tradition of long-running, wide-ranging journals, guided by a commitment to originality, rigour and consistency of content, timely reflection, the exercise of critical thought and the interests of a broad readership.
The journal publishes essays, documents, commentaries and reviews on literature, art and ideas, with a particular emphasis on Portuguese-language cultures. It has drawn on a vast and diverse body of contributors, both Portuguese and international.
The principles set out in the editorial of the first issue of Colóquio/Letras remain valid today: the journal is “intended for study in a manner neither purely scholarly” nor “merely informative,” but rather “reflective, questioning, essayistic.”
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