Geraldo Bessa-Victor

Geraldo Bessa-Victor was born in Luanda on 20 January 1917. After secondary school, he worked as a bank clerk, then moved to Lisbon, where he obtained a law degree and practised as a lawyer from the 1950s. He contributed articles and columns to several Angolan newspapers, including A Província de Angola, belonged to the Cultura movement and collaborated on the review Mensagem. In 1973 he announced that he was leaving literary life, and he died in Lisbon in 1985.

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• Short storiesSanzala sem batuqueGeraldo Bessa-Victor · 1967not translated into EnglishLiterature