Manuel de Seabra

Ernesto Manuel Ferreira de Seabra Bertolo (* July 7, 1932 in Lisbon ), who calls himself as a writer Manuel de Seabra, writes in Portuguese, Catalan and Esperanto.

He was born in Lisbon in an impoverished aristocratic family, he studied history and philosophy and made an actor training at the Conservatory in Lisbon. Due to his political activism against the Salazar regime, he was arrested and had to leave in the wake Portugal, lived in Sweden, France and Great Britain, and finally settled down in Barcelona, ​​where he still lives today.

His works include short stories, novels and poems. His own claims that he wrote his prose works in Esperanto, and only then translated into Catalan and Portuguese. As a literary translator, he has transferred over a hundred books into Catalan, Portuguese and Spanish. For Catalan newspapers, he writes literary and political contributions. Together with his wife Vimala Devi he compiled an extensive Portuguese- Catalan dictionary. 1990 the Catalan government awarded him the Cross of St. George, since 1999 he is President of the ACEC ( Associacio ' collegial de Escritors de Catalunya). He also acts as a corresponding member of the Instituto de Menezes Bragança in Goa.

Awards

In 2001, de Seabra the Creu de Sant Jordi Prize.