Wanda Ramos

Wanda Ramos (19481998) was a Portuguese author and poet.[1]

Ramos was born in Dundo,[2] Angola and moved to Portugal around 1958. She published three collections of poems:

  • Nas Coxas do Tempo (1970)
  • E Contudo Cantar Sempre (1979)
  • Poemas-com-Sentidos (1985)[1]

as well as three novels:

  • Percursos (1981), which won the prize for fiction of the Portuguese Writers' Association[3]
  • As Incontáveis Vésperas (1983)
  • l'éblouissant Litoral (1991)

Her last book was Crónica com estuário ao fundo, (French version Chronique sur fond d’estuaire) published in 1998.[1]

Ramos also worked as a translator, translating works by Jorge Luis Borges, Edith Wharton, Octavio Paz, Rabindranath Tagore and John le Carré into Portuguese.[1]

References

  1. "Wanda Ramos" (in French). maison des écrivains étrangers et des traducteurs (meet).
  2. de Melo, João (1998). Os Anos da guerra, 1961-1975: os portugueses em Africa ... (in Portuguese). p. 476. ISBN 9722014811.
  3. Moutinho, Isabel (2008). The Colonial Wars in Contemporary Portuguese Fiction. p. 55. ISBN 1855661586.


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