Author · Mozambique
Orlando Mendes
Died in 1990
Orlando Marques de Almeida Mendes was born on 4 August 1916 on the island of Mozambique. At first a civil servant, he left in 1944 to study biology at the University of Coimbra, then returned to Mozambique, where he worked as a biologist and plant pathologist in Lourenço Marques. A poet who came to neo-realism and winner of the Fialho de Almeida prize, he published only one book in prose, but also wrote for the theatre and published essays on the literature of his country. He died in Maputo on 11 January 1990.
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- NovelPortagemOrlando Mendes · 1966not translated into EnglishLiterature