VILA VERDE – Vila Verde Library displays books banned by the Estado Novo and hosts a conference by Henrique Barreto Nunes

The Professor Machado Vilela Municipal Library, in Vila Verde, will be the stage, next Friday, April 5th, from 9:30 pm, for another ‘Here there is culture’ initiative. The opening of the exhibition will take place Books banned in the Estado Novo and a conference on the theme “Outside the market”: censorship of books and reading in the Estado Novo, for Henrique Barreto Nunes.

This is another joint initiative between EPATV and the Municipality of Vila Verde, with the support of the Municipal Library and the collaboration of the Commission for Homage to the Democrats of Braga.

HENRIQUE BARRETO NUNES

One of the most prestigious Portuguese librarians, Henrique Barreto Nunes, graduated in History from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Coimbra and graduated with the Librarian-Archivist course from the same Faculty, was a librarian at the Braga Public Library, which he directed between 2000 and 2009, and director of the Braga District Archive, between 2006 and 2009, the year in which he retired.

Professor of Specialization courses in Documentary Sciences at the Faculty of Arts of Coimbra, Lisbon and Porto, he was a member of the Cultural Council of the University of Minho, its vice-president since 2010, and director of the magazine “Fórum”.

He was a member of the Superior Council of Libraries and was one of the authors of the Manifesto on Public Reading in Portugala 1983 document that constituted the necessary warning for the launch of the National Network of Public Libraries, which he helped to found, and with which he collaborated, particularly in the northern region, and it was thanks to his efforts that it was possible to create the Lúcio Library Craveiro da Silva.

Founder and director of ASPA – Association for the Defense, Study and Dissemination of Cultural and Natural Heritage -, he has dedicated his life to the causes of cultural heritage, local and regional history and public libraries.

He is the author of dozens of prefaces and book chapters, several hundred articles in magazines and newspapers and books From the Library to the Reader (Authors from Braga, 2nd ed. 1998) and Friends bigger than thought (Association of Journalists and Men of Letters of Porto, 2010). He organized and coordinated, among others, the works What had to be done is done. I did it as best I could. Victor de Sá in memoriam (with José Viriato Capela and Victor Louro, 2022), Bracarenses in the Academic Crisis of 1969 (with José Viriato Capela, 2019) and The Democrats of Braga: Testimonies and Evocations (with José Viriato Capela and Artur Sá da Costa, 2015).

About book censorship in Portugal he wrote: Books banned under the fascist regime (1994), The bookseller Victor de Sá: 1- Book seizures (2007), Censorship in libraries (2008) and These writers died (2018).

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