Manuel dos Santos Lima

Manuel dos Santos Lima was born on 28 January 1935 in Kuito, in Bié province. At twelve he left for Lisbon, where he attended the Camões lycée and then, from 1953, the faculty of law, and lived at the Casa dos Estudantes do Império. The first Black officer in the Portuguese army, he deserted to join the independence struggle and from 1961 to 1963 commanded the People's Liberation Army of Angola, before breaking with the movement. A doctor of comparative literature at Lausanne, he taught in Canada and then in Rennes. He died at Barreiro, in Portugal, on 17 December 2024.

In the catalogue 1

• NovelAs Lágrimas e o VentoManuel dos Santos Lima · 1975not translated into EnglishLiterature