Dublin through the eyes of Vitor Vicente
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- 26 Apr 2023
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It was a pleasure to speak with Portuguese author Vitor Vicente about his latest book “Harry Kernoff’s Guest” which compiles over twenty poems inspired by the works of Irish painter Harry Kernoff.
Vitor Vicente was born in Barreiro, Setúbal in Portugal and currently resides in Ireland, having lived abroad since 2006. Vitor has had more than a dozen works published and has travelled extensively. He told The Portugal News that he mostly writes about travel and his experiences as an expatriate and that it was a big step when he left Portugal, 17 years ago.
Travel writer with a twist
Vitor told The Portugal News “I consider myself mostly a travel writer but probably not in the classical sense. What I mean by this is that not all of my books are about my trips and what happened on those journeys. I tend to use my trips to write fiction, poetry, theatre and other things so I cover different aspects whilst travelling.”
He then shared “I was 16 years old and my first interest in the domain of arts was actually music. I was really into Rock music and I wanted to be a singer but unfortunately, I was not successful with it. However, I had to compose lyrics to the songs and the lyrics were not that bad so I really enjoyed that aspect of it. Eventually, I focused my attention on my writing abilities and I left my music dream behind and went on to travel extensively.”
For those who do not know Irish painter Harry Kernoff, he was a painter born in London and moved to Dublin in 1914 having shown an early interest in art he enrolled at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art. Harry Kernoff depicted the streets of Dublin as well as landmarks, landscapes, pub scenes and even portraits including those of Dublin’s literary figures Joyce and Yeats. Read More…
