Manuela Margarido

Manuela Margarido was born on 11 September 1925 on the island of Príncipe and committed herself early to the anticolonial struggle and to the independence of the archipelago. In exile in Paris, she studied sociology, religious sciences and cinema there, notably at the Sorbonne. After independence, she was her country's ambassador in Brussels, then lived for many years in Lisbon, where she made São Toméan culture known. She died in Lisbon on 10 March 2007.

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• PoetryAlto como o silêncioManuela Margarido · 1957not translated into EnglishLiterature