Rui Knopfli

Rui Knopfli was born in 1932 in Inhambane, Mozambique, grew up in Lourenço Marques and completed part of his education in Johannesburg. A medical sales representative by profession, he was one of the figures of the colony's cultural life, wrote in the opposition press and, with João Pedro Grabato Dias, founded the poetry notebooks Caliban. Editor of the daily A Tribuna after the Portuguese revolution, he left Mozambique in March 1975 and was later press attaché at the Portuguese embassy in London. He died on 25 December 1997.

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• PoetryA Ilha de PrósperoRui Knopfli · 1972not translated into EnglishLiterature