Author · Guinea-Bissau
Fausto Duarte
Died in 1953
Fausto Castilho Duarte was born in Praia, in Cape Verde, in 1902 or 1903, and studied in Lisbon, where he trained in topography and geodesy. A surveyor in Guinea from 1928, he took part in the demarcation of the colony's borders, followed the Higher Colonial Course, then was secretary general of the municipality of Bolama. A historian of Guinea, he ran the history section of its cultural bulletin and wrote two yearbooks of the colony. He died in 1953.
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- NovelAuá: novela negraFausto Duarte · 1934not translated into EnglishLiterature