Ribeiro, Aquilino

Ribeiro, Aquilino

▪ Portuguese author
in full  Aquilino Gomes Ribeiro 
born Sept. 13, 1885, Beira Alta, Port.
died May 27, 1963, Lisbon

      novelist, the mainstay of Portuguese fiction writing until the surge of neorealist regionalism that began in 1930.

      Ribeiro's revolutionary activism forced him to flee Portugal several times between 1908 and 1932. Much of his time in exile was spent in Paris. Although one of his country's most prolific writers, he is less widely read than many others because of his use of regional terminology deriving from the rural northeastern section of the country. Much of Ribeiro's prose portrays human types and ways of life observed during his own formative years in Beira Alta.

      Ribeiro launched his writing career in 1913 with Jardim das tormentas (“Garden of Torments”) and then Terras do demo (1919; “Lands of the Demon”), followed by pieces of shorter fiction subsequently included in Estrada de Santiago (1922; “Road to Santiago”). He was a member of the Presença group in the 1920s. He remained active into the late 1950s, publishing A casa grande de Romarigães (1957; “The Great House of Romarigães”) and Quando os lobos uivam (1958; “When the Wolves Howl”). During his 40-year career, Ribeiro published some two dozen novels, most of them notable for the stylistic craft used to depict a geographic region with its rustic slang, archaic forms of speech, human types, fauna, and flora. The most memorable of Ribeiro's protagonists is Malhadinhas, a muleteer who appears in Estrada de Santiago and who became the prototype of the rural Portuguese for many contemporary readers.

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