Guilherme de Melo

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Guilherme de Melo (b. 1931 in Mozambique) is a Portuguese journalist, novelist, and activist.[1] Robert Aldrich describes his life: Melo lived through the protracted war of independence in the Portuguese colony in the 1960's and 1970's. Openly gay himself,[2] de Melo's novel The Shadow of the Days is an account of growing up gay in the privileged environment of a white family in colonial Mozambique before the outbreak of war and of leading an openly gay lifestyle against the background of an increasingly bitter anti-colonial war. de Melo was repatriated to Portugal.

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  1. ^ Guilherme de Melo. AndrejKoymaski.com (2004-08-09). Retrieved on 2007-06-22.
  2. ^ McGovern, Timothy (July, 2006). "Expressing Desire, Expressing Death: Antón Lopo's Pronomes and Queer Galician Poetry". Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 7 (2): 135–153(19). Routledge. doi:10.1080/14636200600811110. 
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