Alves Redol

Alves Redol was born on 29 December 1911 in Vila Franca de Xira, the son of a small shopkeeper in the Ribatejo. After commercial school, he left at sixteen for Angola, where he found only poverty, and returned three years later. A journalist, he gave a lecture in Vila Franca in 1936 against art for art's sake, then joined the Communist Party; an opponent of the regime, he saw his books subjected to censorship. In 1953 he led, with painters, a collective work, the rice cycle. He died in Lisbon on 29 November 1969.

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• NovelBarranco de CegosAlves Redol · 1961not translated into EnglishLiterature