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Ribeiro Aquilino
(1885—1963)

Aquilino Gomes Ribeiro was a Portuguese writer. He was the great portuguese novelist of the 20th century. He was nominated to the Nobel Literature Prize in 1960. Destinated to priesthood, Aquilino Ribeiro got involved in republican politics, opposing the Portuguese monarchy, and had to exile himself in Paris; he returned to Portugal in 1914. He was involved in the opposition to António de Oliveira Salazar, whose government tried to censor or ban several of his books.

Portugal, 1985, Aquilino Ribeiro