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Aquilino Ribeiro

Died in 1963

Aquilino Ribeiro was born on 13 September 1885 in Carregal da Tabosa, near Sernancelhe, in Beira Alta, the natural son of a priest. Arrested in Lisbon in 1907 and accused of anarchism in a bomb case, he had to go into exile in France and Spain several times, up until the 1920s. He made the language of the peasants of his region into a literary language, to the point that a glossary of it has been published. His second wife was the daughter of the deposed president Bernardino Machado, and their son became mayor of Lisbon. Nominated for the Nobel Prize, he died in Lisbon on 27 May 1963.

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