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Henrique Teixeira de Sousa

Died in 2006

Henrique Teixeira de Sousa was born in 1919 at São Lourenço, on Fogo. A medical graduate in Lisbon in 1945, he practised in Timor, then on Fogo and São Vicente, where he presided over the municipality. In the forties, he frequented the neorealist circle in Lisbon and gave the reviews Certeza and Claridade short stories and essays on the society of Fogo. Coming late to the novel, he settled in Portugal during the seventies and died in 2006 at Oeiras.

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