Tiago Veiga

Tiago Veiga was born in the Alto Minho countryside in 1900 and died in the same place in 1988. A descendant of Camilo Castelo Branco through his father, he shunned publication and stayed clear of literary circles, yet left fragmentary, highly original verse. His biographer, who met him, follows him through encounters with Fernando Pessoa, Jean Cocteau, Edith Sitwell, W. B. Yeats and Benedetto Croce, with politicians and with the heiress Barbara Hutton, and through a long life of cultivated travel that made him a witness to his century.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

798 pages in the original

Genres

Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Portugal, 1900–1988

First published

2011 by Dom Quixote

Author's age

70 when first published

ISBN

9789722045186 (original)