Ernesto Lara Filho | |
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Born | Ernesto Pires Barreto de Lara Filho 2 November 1932 |
Died | 7 February 1977 | (aged 44)
Nationality | Portuguese, Angolan |
Occupation(s) | writer, civil servant |
Ernesto Pires Barreto de Lara Filho (1932–1977) was a revolutionary Portuguese Angolan writer and agronomist and brother of Angolan poet Alda Lara.
Born in Benguela in 1932, he was educated in Angola and Portugal before he began work as a journalist in Luanda in the 1950s. An outspoken supporter of Angolan independence, he was arrested by the Portuguese security agency PIDE for his revolutionary activities. [1]
In his life Ernesto Lara Filho published several notable books and anthologies of poetry. He was also one of the founders of the Association of Angolan Writers after independence. [2] He died in an automobile accident in 1977, at age 44.