Rui Nogar

Francisco Rui Moniz Barreto, who signed as Rui Nogar, was born on 2 February 1932 in Lourenço Marques, to parents who had come from Goa. A reciter who dared to speak subversive verse in front of plainclothes policemen, and a clandestine militant of the liberation movement, he was arrested in 1964 and imprisoned at Machava, where he rubbed shoulders with Craveirinha, Honwana and the painter Malangatana. After independence, he was national director of Culture, directed the Museum of the Revolution, was a member of parliament and the first secretary general of the writers' association. He died in Lisbon on 11 March 1993.

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• PoetrySilêncio escancaradoRui Nogar · 1982not translated into EnglishLiterature