Namora, Fernando Goncalves

Namora, Fernando Goncalves

▪ Portuguese writer
born April 15, 1919, Condeixa, Port.
died Jan. 31, 1989, Lisbon

      Portuguese writer who wrote neorealist poetry and fiction, much of it inspired by his experience as a doctor in a remote mountainous area of Portugal.

      Namora studied medicine at the University of Coimbra and established a practice in the rural Beira Baixa region. He wrote about his attempt to overcome the mistrust of the superstitious peasants there in Retalhos da vida de um médico (1949, Mountain Doctor; expanded 1963). In reaction to the oppression and poverty that he observed, he turned to writing antifascist neorealist fiction. In the early 1960s Namora worked at the Lisbon Cancer Institute, but he resigned in 1965 to write full-time. After the Revolution of the Carnations that overthrew the government (1974), his work gained wider popularity, and Retalhos da vida de um médico was adapted for television and the cinema. He wrote more than 30 novels, including Minas de São Francisco (1946), O trigo e o joio (1954, Fields of Fate), and Os Clandestinos (1972, “The Secret Ones”). In 1988 he received the Order of Henry the Navigator, Portugal's highest civilian award.

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