Extract from the preface by Duarte Mendonca: (...) Horacio Bento de Gouveia (1901-1983), a native of Ponta Delgada, a village of the northern side of the Portuguese island of Madeira, is the most prominent Madeiran writer of the 20th century. During his lifetime he published several major works such as "Ilheus" (1949), "Lagrimas Correndo Mundo" (1959), "Aguas Mansas" (1963), "Canhenhos da Ilha" (1966), "Alma Negra e Outras Almas" (1972), "Torna-Viagem - O Romance do Emigrante" (1979), "Margareta" (1980) and "Luisa Marta," published posthumously in 1986. Gouveia's literary world revolves...
Extract from the preface by Duarte Mendonca: (...) Horacio Bento de Gouveia (1901-1983), a native of Ponta Delgada, a village of the northern side of ...