“Perhaps I am read more by the people than by the false intellectuals”: Natália Correia, the unsubmissive, provocative, and free poet

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“Perhaps I am read more by the people than by the false intellectuals”: Natália Correia, the unsubmissive, provocative, and free poet

In March 1970, the poet Natália Correia was given a suspended prison sentence for publishing the book “Anthology of Portuguese Satirical and Erotic Poetry”. She even considered defending herself in verse, as she did years later in the Assembly of the Republic with the famous poem she dedicated to CDS deputy João Morgado, when he argued that “the sexual act is for making children”. Natália Correia was like that: original, unsubmissive, provocative, and free, above all free. Discover her biography in this special podcast “Portraits of April”, originally released for the 50th anniversary of the Revolution in Portugal in 2024.

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