In a note alluding to his death, the president of the Azores government considers that the departure of Álamo Oliveira left the Azorean and Portuguese “poorer” culture.
The writer, poet and playwright Álamo de Oliveira, born in Terceira Island, in the Azores, died this Sunday at the age of 80, highlighting the president of the Regional Government one of the “most authentic” voices in the region.
Álamo Oliveira was born in the parish of Raminho, on Terceira Island, having started his studies at the Angra do Heroism seminar.
His novel “I no longer like chocolates” was translated and published in the United States and Japan and his work “To date, memories of Dog” was awarded the Seixal City Council Maré Viva award in 1985.
Already “Solitude of the Casa do Regalo” was awarded the Almeida Garrett Prize in 1999.
In a note alluding to his death, the president of the Azores government considers that the departure of Álamo Oliveira left the Azorean and Portuguese “poorer” culture.
“He broke a man who was, throughout his life, one of the most authentic voices of the Azorean soul. A restless, generous and deeply linked creator to the roots of our islands, their people, their pains, their joys, their memories,” says José Manuel Bolieiro.
Alamo de Oliveira published about 40 books of poetry, romance, theater, tale and rehearsal, but “are the ideas, questions, the stages where he went, the readers who touched, the young people who inspired”, according to Bolieiro.
Alamo de Oliveira was distinguished with the autonomous insignia of recognition by the Government of the Azores and the degree of Commander of the Order of Merit by the Presidency of the Republic.
