Aquilino Gomes Ribeiro, ComL

Order of Liberty

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(ɐkiˈlinu ʁiˈbɐjɾu; Carregal de Tabosa, Sernancelhe, September 13, 1885 - Lisbon

Lisbon

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, May 27, 1963) was a Portuguese

Portugal

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 writer and diplomat

Diplomat

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. He is considered as one of the great Portuguese

Portuguese people

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 novelists of the 20th century. He was nominated for the Nobel Literature Prize in 1960.

Natural son of Joaquim Francisco Ribeiro, a priest, and Mariana do Rosário Gomes, he had three older siblings: Maria do Rosário, Melchior and Joaquim. Destinated to priesthood

Priesthood (Catholic Church)

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, Aquilino Ribeiro got involved in republican politics

Portuguese Republican Party

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, opposing the Portuguese monarchy

History of Portugal (1834-1910)

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, and had to exile himself in Paris

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; he returned to Portugal in 1914, after the Republican Revolution

Portuguese First Republic

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 of 1910.

He was involved in the opposition to António de Oliveira Salazar

António de Oliveira Salazar

António de Oliveira Salazar, GColIH, GCTE, GCSE served as the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1932 to 1968. He also served as acting President of the Republic briefly in 1951. He founded and led the Estado Novo , the authoritarian, right-wing government that presided over and controlled Portugal...

 and the Estado Novo, whose government tried to censor or ban several of his books.

He married twice, firstly in 1913 to German Grete Tiedemann (ca. 1890-1927), by whom he had a son Aníbal Aquilino Fritz Tiedeman Ribeiro in 1914, and secondly in Paris

Paris

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 in 1929 to Jerónima Dantas Machado, daughter of the deposed President of Portugal Bernardino Machado, by whom he had a son Aquilino Ribeiro Machado, born in Paris

Paris

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 in 1930, who became the 60th Mayor

Mayor

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 of Lisbon

Lisbon

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(1977–1979).

Some works

He wrote more than 70 novels, the most famous being:

"A Via Sinuosa" (1918)

"Terras do Demo" (1919)

"O Malhadinhas" (1920)

"Estrada de Santiago" (1922)

"Andam Faunos pelo Bosques" (1926)

"Romance da Raposa" (1929)

"Batalha Sem Fim" (1931)

"Volfrâmio" (1944)

"A Grande Casa de Romarigães" (1957)

"Quando os Lobos Uivam" (1958; tr. 1963: When the Wolves Howl)