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Book launch «Os Mistérios de Casimiro» by António Pocinho

— with Pierre Pratt, Samuel Úria, Vasco Santos and Miguel Gouveia

Sat14.11.2606:00PM
Livraria Zé dos Bois


«Os Mistérios de Casimiro», António Pocinho (Bruaá, 2026). Ilustração de Pierre Pratt

Casimiro isn’t quite sure why he’s on Earth. He only knows that he has questions. Lots of questions: Am I a special envoy or a secret agent from another galaxy? Why am I not from a different family? Why isn’t there nothing instead of everything?… But the more he searches for answers to the puzzles of his brief existence, the more his head spins like the Earth: round its own imaginary axis.

Full of humour and absurdity, this is a book for all the inhabitants of this planet who are wary of answers that are too easy and who never give up on finding answers.

Published in 2002 by Fenda, the book Os Mistérios de Casimiro is now published by Bruaá, with new illustrations by Pierre Pratt. The launch will feature the illustrator Pierre Pratt, musician Samuel Úria, Fenda’s editor Vasco Santos and Miguel Gouveia, Bruaá’s editor.

António Pocinho

António Pocinho (1958–2010) was a Portuguese writer, anthropologist and author of a body of work that is as difficult to categorise as it is easy to recognise: ironic, irreverent, absurd and deeply attuned to the world.

Born in Condeixa and raised between Tomar and Lisbon, he graduated with a degree in Anthropology from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, although his career unfolded primarily in the fields of writing and the arts. Pocinho liked to describe himself, with the humour that runs through all his work, as an «anthropologist, passenger and pilot of flying writings», spanning poetry, journalism, short stories, magazines, illustrated postcards, stand-alone phrases and plays.

His books include Rosto Pintado de Anjo no Cinema, A Ilustre Máquina de Ramires, Elucidário Sexual, Pés Frios Dentro da Cabeça, Quanto Custa Criar uma Sardinha and Os Mistérios de Casimiro.

He died in 2010, aged 52, leaving behind a unique body of work, characterised by humour, wordplay and a constant desire to view the world from the sidelines — perhaps to see it more clearly.

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