title: Fernando Sylvan
text: Fernando Sylvan (Díli, 26 August 1917—Cascais, 25 December 1993) was a poet and a writer from East Timor.
  
  He spent almost all his life in Portugal. The distance between Portugal and Timor didn't prevent him writing about the traditions, the legends and the folklore of his homeland.  He is considered among the greatest writers in Portuguese and he was a member and the president of the Sociedade de Língua Portuguesa.
  
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   Artigo mais completo sobre literatura timorense e literatura de Timor, incluindo Fernando Sylvan
  
  East Timorese writers
  East Timorese poets
  1917 births
  1993 deaths
  People from Dili
  20th-century poets