Vitorino Nemésio

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Vitorino Nemésio Mendes Pinheiro da Silva (19 December 1901 – 20 February 1978) was a Portuguese poet, author and intellectual from Terceira, Azores, best known for his novel ''Mau Tempo No Canal (literally, ''Bad Weather in the Channel'' but published in an English translation as Stormy Isles – An Azorean Tale)'', as well as a professor in the Faculty of Letters at the University of Lisbon and member of the Academy of Sciences of Lisbon. Provided by Wikipedia