Fernando Sylvan

Fernando Sylvan, whose real name was Abílio Leopoldo Motta-Ferreira, was born in Dili on 26 August 1917. He left Timor as a child and lived almost all his life in Portugal. His first book of poems appeared in Porto in 1942; he then published other books of poems, prose, from 1951 to 1988, and plays. A member of the Portuguese Language Society in Lisbon, he was its president from 1976 to 1993. He died in Cascais on 25 December 1993.

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• PoetryA Voz Fagueira de Oan TímorFernando Sylvan · 1993not translated into EnglishLiterature