Germano de Almeida

Germano de Almeida was born on 31 July 1945 on the island of Boa Vista. He did his military service in Angola, obtained a scholarship in the early seventies and studied law in Lisbon. Having returned home after independence, he settled in Mindelo, where he has practised as a lawyer since 1979, served as a prosecutor, then founded with friends a literary magazine and a publishing house on the island of São Vicente. He has published some thirty books, novels and story collections, several of them drawn from real events, and received the Camões Prize in 2018.

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• NovelThe Last Will and Testament of Senhor da Silva AraújoO Testamento do Sr. Napumoceno da Silva AraújoGermano de Almeida · 1989Literature