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Name: Adolfo Rocha
Variant Name: Miguel Torga, Adolfo Correia da Rocha
Birth Date: August 12, 1907
Death Date: January 17, 1995
Nationality: Portuguese
Gender: Male

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Biography of Adolfo Rocha
6,159 words, approx. 21 pages
Miguel Torga's vast literary production is characterized by a humanist portrayal of the land and the people of Portugal. Although he was not directly involved in politics, he denounced all types of human oppression. He focused specifically on the...


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Miguel Torga Information
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He was born in the village of São Martinho de Anta in Trás-os-Montes, northern Portugal, to small-time farmer parents. After a short spell as student in a catholic seminary in Lamego, Trás-os-Montes, in 1920 his father sent him to Brazil where he...


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The Independent - London
Obituary: Miguel Torga
01/20/1995: 1,422 words, approx. 5 pages
Adolfo Correira da Rocha (Miguel Torga), poet, novelist, doctor of medicine: born Sao Martinho de Anta 12 August 1907; died Coimbra 17 January 1995. By one of those pleasant accidents that rejoice the common reader, I happened to pick out of a second-hand...
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World Literature Today
Miguel Torga (1907-1995)(Obituary)
01/01/1997: 917 words, approx. 3 pages
Miguel Torga was one of the most vocal, most emphatic and most lyrical writers to emerge out of Portugal. He was born Adolfo Correia da Rocha in 1907 to peasant parents and started writing poetry while studying medicine at the University of Coimbra. His...
 


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