Teolinda Gersão

Teolinda Gersão (born 1940) is a Portuguese writer.[1]

Born in Coimbra, she studied at the universities of Coimbra, Tübingen and Berlin. She also taught at the Technical University of Berlin, Lisbon University, and the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, among others. A full-time writer since the mid-1990s, Gersao is the author of more than a dozen books. She has won several literary prizes for her work. Her novel The Word Tree set in colonial Mozambique, was translated into English by Margaret Jull Costa.

References

  1. "Teolinda Gersão". epdlp.com. Retrieved 2015-08-21.
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