Viriato da Cruz

Viriato Clemente da Cruz was born on 25 March 1928 in Porto Amboim and attended secondary school in Luanda. In 1948, he was one of the leading figures of the movement of the new intellectuals of Angola, then of the review Mensagem. A co-founder of the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola, of which he became secretary general, he broke away from it as a dissident and lived in exile in Europe, then in China, where he was no longer free to leave. He died in Beijing on 13 June 1973.

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• PoetryPoemasViriato da Cruz · 1961not translated into EnglishLiterature