Author · Angola
Alda Lara
Died in 1962
Alda Ferreira Pires Barreto de Lara Albuquerque was born on 9 June 1930 in Benguela; her brother Ernesto Lara Filho was also a poet. After secondary school in Lisbon, she studied medicine in Lisbon and then Coimbra, frequented the House of Students of the Empire and published her first verses in the review Mensagem. Married in 1953 to the writer Orlando de Albuquerque, she returned to Angola in 1961 to practise medicine and died in Cambambe on 30 January 1962, at thirty-one.