Hélder Malta Macedo (born November 1935 in
Krugersdorp
Krugersdorp (Afrikaans for ''Kruger's Town'') is a mining city in the West Rand, Gauteng Province, South Africa founded in 1887 by Marthinus Pretorius and Abner Cohen. Following the discovery of gold on the Witwatersrand, a need arose for a ...
) is a Portuguese writer.
His father was a colonial administrator in
Zambézia,
Mozambique
Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique, is a country located in Southeast Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west, and Eswatini and South Afr ...
, where Macedo grew up till the age of 12. His opposition to the
Salazar regime caused him to seek exile in London during the 1950s.
[Was a Faber and Faber novelist, friends with writers Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes in early 1960s London.]
References
1935 births
Living people
Portuguese poets
Portuguese novelists
Fellows of King's College London
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