Olga Gonçalves

Olga Gonçalves was born on 12 April 1929 in Luanda, Angola, and moved early to Lisbon; she studied at the University of London, worked as an English teacher and translated Simone de Beauvoir, among others. She began in poetry in 1972 and came to the novel only after the Carnation Revolution, making collected speech the material of her books. A friend of Saramago, who steered her towards the publisher of her last years, she published some fifteen books and died in Lisbon on 3 April 2004, leaving almost no trace in her own country.

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• NovelA Floresta em BremerhavenOlga Gonçalves · 1975not translated into EnglishLiterature