Married, four children, 12 grandchildren Chair of German and Comparative Literature at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, until 2008 As a writer started publishing poetry, novels, essays and plays since the happy sixties...and still goes on... Keeps blogs on literature, alchemy, creative writing as a pleasant hobby; Has translated Shakespeare, Goethe, Brecht, Paul Celan among others into Portuguese Special research in spiritual alchemy, following Jung´s alchemical studies