Wanda Ramos

Wanda Ramos (1948–1998) was a Portuguese author and poet.

Ramos was born in Dundo, Angola and moved to Portugal around 1958. In addition to her novels and collections of poems, Ramos also worked as a translator, translating works by Jorge Luis Borges, Edith Wharton, Octavio Paz, Rabindranath Tagore and John le Carré into Portuguese.

Selected works

Collections of poems

• Nas Coxas do Tempo (1970)
• E Contudo Cantar Sempre (1979)
• Poemas-com-Sentidos (1985)

Novels

• Percursos (1981), which won the prize for fiction of the Portuguese Writers' Association
• As Incontáveis Vésperas (1983)
• l'éblouissant Litoral (1991)

Her last book was Crónica com estuário ao fundo, (French version Chronique sur fond d’estuaire) published in 1998.

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