João Aguiar (writer)


João Casimiro Namorado de Aguiar 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 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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