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Aquilino Ribeiro, c. 1918
Born	Aquilino Gomes Ribeiro (1885-09-13)13 September 1885 Tabosa do Carregal, Sernancelhe, Viseu, Portugal
Died	May 27, 1963(1963-05-27) (aged 77) Lisbon, Portugal
Occupation	Writer
Nationality	Portuguese
Notable works	Cinco reis de gente
Spouse	Grete Tiedemann ​ ​ (m. 1913; div. 1927)​ Jerónima Dantas Machado ​ (m. 1929)​

Aquilino Gomes Ribeiro, ComL ( 13 September 1885 – 27 May 1963, Lisbon), was a Portuguese writer and diplomat. He is generally considered to be one of the great Portuguese novelists of the 20th century. In 1960, he was nominated for the Nobel Literature Prize; having been nominated by the Sociedade Portuguesa de Escritores [pt].

Biography

Born in Carregal de Tabosa, Sernancelhe, the natural son of Joaquim Francisco Ribeiro, a priest, and Mariana do Rosário Gomes, he had three older siblings: Maria do Rosário, Melchior and Joaquim. He was originally destined for the priesthood, but became involved with the Portuguese Republican Party in opposition to the Royal House of Braganza, and had to exile himself in Paris. In 1914, he returned to Portugal, after the start of World War I. By then, the Portuguese First Republic had been established.

He was later involved in opposition to António de Oliveira Salazar and the Estado Novo, whose government had moved to censor or ban several of his books.

He was married twice: in 1913 to Grete Tiedemann (ca. 1890-1927), a German, by whom he had a son, Aníbal Aquilino Fritz Tiedeman Ribeiro in 1914; then, in 1929, to Jerónima Dantas Machado, daughter of the deposed President of Portugal Bernardino Machado, by whom he had a son Aquilino Ribeiro Machado, in 1930, who became the 60th Mayor of Lisbon (1977–1979).

Novels

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In Spanish: Aquilino Ribeiro para niños