João Aguiar (writer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Portuguese writer and journalist
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Place of Birth: Lisbon, Lisbon District, Portugal
About João Aguiar (writer)
- João Casimiro Namorado de Aguiar (28 October 1943 – 3 June 2010) was a Portuguese writer and journalist.
- He spent his youth in Portuguese Mozambique. Aguiar was born and died in Lisbon.
- After working for a time in the Portuguese tourist industry in Brussels and Amsterdam, he studied journalism at the Free University of Brussels and in 1976 returned to Portugal to work as a journalist. He worked for RTP (where he began his career in 1963) and a variety of daily and weekly periodicals such as the Daily News, A Luta, Diário Popular, O País, and Sábado.
- In 1981 he was named press secretary of the Ministry of Quality of Life, a short-lived government department concerned with sports and the environment.
- He was a regular contributor to the monthly magazine Superinteressante and sat on its editorial board.
- He died of cancer on 3 June 2010 in Lisbon. He dedicated himself to literature, being one of the most acclaimed Portuguese novelists in the genre of the historical novel.
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