Guilherme de Melo
Guilherme de Melo was a Portuguese journalist, novelist, and activist. Melo lived through the protracted war of independence in the Portuguese colony of Mozambique in the 1960s and 1970s. Openly gay himself, Melo's novel The Shadow of the Days is an account of growing up gay in the privileged environment of a white family in colonial Mozambique before the outbreak of war and of being openly gay against the background of an increasingly bitter anti-colonial war. After the Carnation Revolution and the independence of Mozambique in 1975, Melo went to Portugal.
Other titles: Ainda Havia Sol, O Homem que Odiava a Chuva, As Vidas de Elisa Antunes, O que Houver de Morrer and Como um Rio sem Pontes.
