Fernando Namora

Fernando Namora was born on 15 April 1919 in Condeixa-a-Nova, near Coimbra. He published a first collection of verse at the age of fourteen, and his third opened the Novo Cancioneiro in 1941, the series that served as the organ of Portuguese neorealism, alongside Carlos de Oliveira and Mário Dionísio. Qualified as a doctor in Coimbra in 1942, he practised in his native town, in Beira Baixa and in Alentejo, then became an assistant at the oncology institute in Lisbon. A novelist and short-story writer, he died in Lisbon on 31 January 1989.

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• ChronicleRetalhos da Vida de um MédicoFernando Namora · 1949not translated into EnglishLiterature