Ernesto Lara Filho

Ernesto Pires Barreto de Lara Filho was born on 2 November 1932 in Benguela; he was the brother of the poet Alda Lara. Trained in Angola and Portugal, he worked as an agricultural overseer and civil servant, then became a journalist in Luanda in the fifties and contributed columns to the country's major newspapers. A supporter of independence, he was pursued by the Portuguese political police and lost his jobs. He died in Huambo, in a car accident, on 7 February 1977.

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• PoetryPicada de MarimbondoErnesto Lara Filho · 1961not translated into EnglishLiterature