Wanda Ramos

Wanda Ramos (1948–1998) was a Portuguese author and poet.

Ramos was born in Dundo, Angola and moved to Portugal around 1958. In addition to her novels and collections of poems, Ramos also worked as a translator, translating works by Jorge Luis Borges, Edith Wharton, Octavio Paz, Rabindranath Tagore and John le Carré into Portuguese.

Selected works

 * Collections of poems:
 * Nas Coxas do Tempo (1970)
 * E Contudo Cantar Sempre (1979)
 * Poemas-com-Sentidos (1985)

Her last book was Crónica com estuário ao fundo, (French version Chronique sur fond d’estuaire) published in 1998.
 * Novels:
 * Percursos (1981), which won the prize for fiction of the Portuguese Writers' Association
 * As Incontáveis Vésperas (1983)
 * l'éblouissant Litoral (1991)