João de Melo

João de Melo (* 1949 in Achadinha in the Azores ) is a Portuguese writer .

Life

At the age of 10 he moved to mainland Portugal and lived in Lisbon from 1967 . From 1971 to 1974 he took part in the colonial war in Angola in a field hospital. This experience had a lasting influence on his literary work. In 1981 he graduated from the Faculty of Humanities in Lisbon as a Romance philologist . He then taught English and French at a school and creative writing and literary studies at a university.

He currently works as a cultural advisor for the Portuguese embassy in Madrid .

He mainly writes novels and short stories, but has also published several textbooks, literary reviews, anthologies, poetry, chronicles and travel literature.

Works

fiction

• 1975 - Histórias da Resistência
• 1977 - A Memória de Ver Matar e Morrer
• 1983 - O Meu Mundo Não é Deste Reino
• 1984 - Autópsia de um Mar de Ruínas (sobre a guerra colonial)
• 1987 - Entre Pássaro e Anjo
• 1988 - Gente Feliz com Lágrimas
• 1992 - Bem-Aventuranças
• 1997 - O Homem Suspenso

poetry

• 1980 - Navegação da Terra

Essays

• 1968 - A Produção Literária Açoriana nos Últimos 10 Anos
• 1982 - Toda e Qualquer Escrita
• 1982 - Há ou Não Uma Literatura Açoriana?

Travel literature

• 2000 - Açores, o Segredo das Ilhas

Chronicles

• 1994 - Dicionário de Paixões

Anthologies

• 1978 - Antologia Panorâmica do Conto Açoriano
• 1988 - Os Anos da Guerra

Web links

• projecto vercial