Sena, Jorge de

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Jorge de Sena
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Name	Sena, Jorge de Gender: M
Birthname	Jorge Cândido de Sena
born on	2 November 1919 at 09:50 (= 09:50 AM )
Place	Lisbon, Portugal, 38n43, 9w08
Timezone	GMT h0w (is standard time)
Data source	Quoted BC/BR Rodden Rating AA
Astrology data	08°56' 24°47 Asc. 11°28'

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Biography

Portuguese poet, novelist, playwright, a prolific writer in various genres. A civil engineer by training, he fled to Brazil in 1959 after an assassination coup against the the dictator Salazar failed. De Sena feared that his role would be discovered. In Brazil, he earned a doctorate in humanities. With his wife and nine children he later emigrated to the US and lived in California for the rest of his life. His 1978 novel Signs of Fire is semi-autobiographical and takes place in Portugal at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War.

He died of cancer on June 4, 1978 in Santa Barbara, CA. age 58.

Events

• Work : Published/ Exhibited/ Released 1978 (Signs of Fire, a novel)

• Death by Disease 4 June 1978 (Of cancer, in Santa Barbara, CA, age 58)
• Family : Change residence 1959 (To Brazil)

Source Notes

Filipe Ferreira quotes birth certificate in hand

Categories

• Vocation : Writers : Poet

• Vocation : Writers : Fiction

• Personal : Death : Illness/ Disease (Cancer)

• Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Cancer

• Family : Parenting : Kids more than 3 (Nine)

• Lifestyle : Home : Expatriate (In Brazil and later in the US)