A book launch for The Poets Who Weren´t Camões, written by Landeg White and Hélio Alves, will be held on Thursday 22nd March at Universidade Aberta, Palácio Ceia in Lisbon.

In December 2017 the Portuguese parliament held a tribute for Landeg White to celebrate his contribution to Portuguese literature. Below is a video of the event with English subtitles.

By Hugh Macmillan from the The Guardian.

My friend and former colleague Landeg White, who has died at his home in Portugal aged 77, was an academic and poet, one of the most versatile and prolific of the Africanists who began work in the post-independence era.

He was born in Taff’s Well, near Cardiff, the son of Reginald White, known as REO White, who became principal of the Scottish Baptist College, and Gwyneth (nee Landeg). After schooling at Rutherglen Academy in Lanarkshire and Birkenhead Institute on the Wirral, Landeg graduated in English from Liverpool University then began work teaching English literature at the University of the West Indies, Trinidad, in 1964. A product of his time there was his critical introduction to the work of VS Naipaul (1975).

By Jugneeta Sudan from the The Navhind Times, December 2016.

In the cool confines of a room on the upper storey of Fundacao Oriente, I met Landeg White. A citizen of the world, he has taught in three continents and turned out a prodigious number of books of prose and poetry. He is in Goa presently to talk to audiences about his work and preoccupations of the last 50 years. Here are some excerpts from our conversation…More

By Vivek Menezes from the Times of India.

Heart-wrenching news reached Goa earlier this week. The superb Lisbon-based translator and poet Landeg White succumbed after a mercifully brief battle with cancer. Over the past five years, the septuagenarian found an adoring audience in the subcontinent, focused in Goa. This was for his superb oeuvre of original poetry, but most especially for his work on the iconic “bard of Portugal”, Luís Vaz de Camões. Here, White pulled off an extraordinary achievement by meticulously repositioning the 16th century genius from his exalted status as “national poet” to seminal transnational artist. Even in his last days, the fatally stricken author put finishing touches on an immensely important work that he alone could have written. Camões: Made In Goa reshapes our understanding of cultural and intellectual history.