Guilherme de Melo
Guilherme de Melo (1931 in Lourenço Marques, Portuguese Mozambique – 29 June 2013 in Lisbon) was a Portuguese journalist, novelist, and activist. Melo lived through the protracted war of independence in the Portuguese colony of Mozambique in the 1960s and 1970s. Openly gay himself, Melo's novel The Shadow of the Days (A Sombra dos Dias) is an account of growing up gay in the privileged environment of a white family in colonial Mozambique before the outbreak of war and of being openly gay against the background of an increasingly bitter anti-colonial war.
Guilherme de Melo
- Born
- 1931 · Maputo.
- Died
- 2013 · Lisbon.
- Nationality
- Portugal
- Occupation
- journalist · poet · writer · lgbtq rights activist
- Languages
- Portuguese
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Guilherme de Melo (1931 in Lourenço Marques, Portuguese Mozambique – 29 June 2013 in Lisbon) was a Portuguese journalist, novelist, and activist. Melo lived through the protracted war of independence in the Portuguese colony of Mozambique in the 1960s and 1970s. Openly gay himself, Melo's novel The Shadow of the Days (A Sombra dos Dias) is an account of growing up gay in the privileged environment of a white family in colonial Mozambique before the outbreak of war and of being openly gay against the background of an increasingly bitter anti-colonial war.
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Born at Maputo in 1931, died in Lisbon in 2013.
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