Vítor Manuel de Aguiar e Silva

Vítor Manuel de Aguiar e Silva (1939–2022) was a Portuguese scholar, writer and poet .

He was born in the parish of Real in Penalva do Castelo. He studied at the Liceu Nacional de Viseu and the University of Coimbra. He obtained a doctorate in Portuguese literature, and then in 1979, he took up a teaching career at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Coimbra. He later moved to the University of Minho where he served as the vice-rector from 1990 to 2002.

A prolific scholar and writer, he won the Camoes Prize in 2020. He published more than a dozen books on Portuguese literature, among them several works on the Portuguese national poet Luis de Camoes.

He died in September 2022, three days before his 83rd birthday.