Teolinda Gersão (born 1940) is a Portuguese writer. Born in

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, she studied at the universities of Coimbra, Tübingen and Berlin. She also taught at

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, and the

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, 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

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