List: Azorean writers

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  • Antero Tarquínio de Quental, old spelling Anthero, (April 18, 1842 - September 11, 1891), a Portuguese poet, was born in Ponta Delgada on the island of São Miguel, in the Azores, into one of the oldest families of the provincial captaincies on the island.
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  • Joaquim Teófilo Fernandes Braga (24 February 1843 – 28 January 1924) was a Portuguese politician, writer, and playwright. His debut in literature was called Folhas Verdes (Green Leaves). He graduated with a degree in law from the University of Coimbra in 1872; he departed for Lisbon, where he taught literature.
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  • José Cândido da Silveira Avelar, (São Jorge, 1843 - Horta, December 3 de 1905), was an Azorean historian, author of the pioneered work about the history of the island of São Jorge. He was a writer of the council administration of Velas in 1881 which he had done political and intellectual movements, sustained a polemical strength with João Duarte de Sousa, another author from the same island and a political opponent about the historiography of the island.
  • João Duarte de Sousa, some refer to J. Duarte de Sousa, (Velas, October 23, 1862 – Angra do Heroísmo, May 29, 1909), was an Azorean politician and a historian. He was a pioneer on the island history of São Jorge. João Duarte de Sousa served as a writer in the Velas town hall, where he remained for 24 years (in 1886). For his elevation in Terceira with Maria Carlota Rebelo.
  • João Teixeira Soares de Sousa, an Azorean politician and an investigator of Azorean history, anthropology, and ethnography, was born on the island of São Jorge in the municipality of Velas and the parish of Manadas on 12 September 1827, and he died at Ponta Delgada on São Miguel Island on 1 February 1875. In general, he is referred to as Dr. João Teixeira Soares.
  • Pedro de Merelim was a pseodynum of the Portuguese-born historian and ethnographer Joaquim Gomes da Cunha. He was born in the parish of São Pedro de Merelim, Braga, he moved to the Azores and signed to the Corpo Expedicionário (Expeditionary Body) in which it was headed for the archipelago during the Second World War. He was settled in Angra do Heroísmo and was later involved in important investigator work of history and locla tradition, he publicated several volumes on these themes.
  • Manuel de Andrade Fulano de Tal, an Azorean jurist. He was also a comarta of Velas. He was a publisher of the review known as Jorgense.

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