Ruy Duarte de Carvalho

Ruy Duarte de Carvalho was born in 1941 in Santarém, Portugal, and grew up in Angola, in Namibe. An agricultural technician in 1960, he worked on coffee plantations and then in sheep farming, and took Angolan nationality. Trained in cinema in London, he filmed independence, then in 1982 made a fiction based on an oral tale from the south. He received a doctorate in anthropology in Paris in 1986, and taught in Luanda, Coimbra, São Paulo and Berkeley. He died in August 2010 in Swakopmund, Namibia.

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• PoetryOndula, savana brancaRuy Duarte de Carvalho · 1982not translated into EnglishLiterature