Fernando Sylvan ( Díli, 26 August 1917—

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, 25 December 1993) was a poet and a writer from

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. He spent almost all his life in Portugal. The distance between Portugal and Timor didn't prevent him writing about the traditions, the

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s and the

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of his homeland. He is considered among the greatest writers in Portuguese and he was a member and the president of the Sociedade de Língua Portuguesa.

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Artigo mais completo sobre literatura timorense e literatura de Timor, incluindo Fernando Sylvan
East Timorese writers East Timorese poets 1917 births 1993 deaths People from Dili 20th-century poets {{EastTimor-writer-stub