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Article: Obituary: Miguel Torga
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 20, 1995
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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 box a book illustrated by
Gregorio Prieto, whom I was collecting. It bore the English title
Farrusco the Blackbird, by Miguel Torga, and contained delightful
children's stories excellently translated by Denis Brass.
They were set in a mysterious, wild region of northern Portugal
called Trs-os-Montes, portrayed in spare but vivid descriptions that
reminded me of the gaunt, rocky beauty of Galway and Connemara. In
the simple prose I ...