Guilherme de Melo

Who is Guilherme de Melo?

Guilherme de Melo is 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 leading an openly gay lifestyle 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.