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José Trindade Coelho
Portuguese writer
José Trindade Coelho, (born June 18, 1861, Mogadouro, Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Port.—died June 9, 1908, Lisbon), Portuguese writer who is best known for his regional short stories, most of which are set in remote, rural northern Portugal.
Trindade Coelho graduated in 1885 from the University of Coimbra and subsequently entered the government legal service. He was a magistrate in Lisbon from 1890 until his retirement in 1907. He committed suicide the following year. His fame rests upon a single volume of stories, Os meus amores (1891; "My Loves"). Though of unequal merit, these sketchily plotted vignettes of village life sympathetically explore a simple, primitive world in language so natural as to seem artless. Tragic elements are suggested with the stoical restraint of folklore, and realism is often tempered by lyrical descriptions of natural scenery and evocations of the author's childhood experiences.
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June 9, 1908 (aged 46)