Henrique Abranches

Henrique Abranches was born in Lisbon on 29 September 1932 and moved to Angola with his parents at the age of fifteen. Arrested and then expelled in 1961, he left Portugal and settled in Algiers, where he founded, with others, a study centre devoted to Angola and worked on a history textbook of the country. After independence, he directed the national museums, founded an anthropology laboratory and taught in higher education; a writer, ethnographer and draughtsman, he twice won the national literature prize, in 1981 and in 1989. He died in 2004.

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• NovelA Konkhava de FetiHenrique Abranches · 1981not translated into EnglishLiterature