Teolinda Gersão

Teolinda Gersão (* 1940 in Coimbra ) is a Portuguese writer .

Teolinda studied German and English in Coimbra , Tübingen and Berlin , worked as a lecturer of the Portuguese language at the Technical University of Berlin , lecturer in Lisbon and later as a university professor at the New University of Lisbon , where she taught German literature and comparative literature until 1995. Since then, Teolinda has devoted herself exclusively to literature.

She lived in Germany for three years and in São Paulo , Brazil , for two years , a city that influenced her writing some texts such as Os Guarda-Chuvas Cintilantes (1984). She also got to know the state of Mozambique , in whose capital, the then so-called Lourenço Marques and today's Maputo , the scenes from the novel A Árvore das Palavras (1997) take place.

Works

• O Silêncio (1981)
• Paisagem com Mulher e Mar ao Fundo (1981)
• História do Homem na Gaiola e do Pássaro Encarnado (1982)
• Os Guarda-Chuvas Cintilantes (1984)
• O Cavalo de Sol (1989)
• A Casa da Cabeça de Cavalo (1995)
• A Árvore das Palavras (1997)
• Os Teclados (1999)
• Os Anjos (2000)
• Histórias de Ver e Andar (2002)
• O Mensageiro e Outras Histórias com Anjos (2003)
• A Mulher Que prendeu a Chuva (2008)
• A Cidade de Ulisses (2011)
• Prantos, Amores e Outros Desvarios (2016)

Web links

• Information about the author and her works (English, Portuguese)