Ernesto Lara Filho
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Born
2 November 1932
Ernesto Pires Barreto de Lara Filho
2 November 1932
Occupationswriter, civil servant
Ernesto Lara Filho | |
|---|---|
| Born | Ernesto Pires Barreto de Lara Filho 2 November 1932 |
| Died | 7 February 1977 (aged 44) |
| Occupations | 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.
