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Also Known As	Baltasar Lopes da Silva • Osvaldo Alcântara
Born	April 23, 1907 • Vila da Ribeira Brava • Cabo Verde • (Birthday in 3 days)
Died	May 28, 1989 (aged 82) • São Vicente Island • Cabo Verde
Notable Works	“Chiquinho”

Miguel Torga

Portuguese poet and diarist

Manuel Lopes

Cabo Verdean author

Luís Romano

Cabo Verdean author

Joan Aiken

British author

Manuel Ferreira

Portuguese author

Mário de Sá-Carneiro

Portuguese author

Eugénio Tavares

Cabo Verdean poet

Fausto Duarte

Cabo Verdean author and government official

Jorge Barbosa

Cabo Verdean poet

Concha Espina de Serna

Spanish author

D.H. Lawrence

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Rainer Maria Rilke

Austrian-German poet

Ezra Pound

American poet

Tillie Olsen

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C.S. Lewis

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