Luís Cristóvão Dias de Aguiar (born Pico da Pedra, São Miguel Island

São Miguel Island

São Miguel Island , nicknamed "The Green Island", is the largest and most populous island in the Portuguese Azores archipelago. The island covers and has around 140,000 inhabitants, 45,000 of these people located in the largest city in the archipelago: Ponta Delgada.-History:In 1427, São Miguel...

, 1940) commonly known as Cristóvão de Aguiar, is a Portuguese

Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...

 writer.

His most significant work is the novel

Novel

A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....

 trilogy

Trilogy

A trilogy is a set of three works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as three individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games...

"Raiz Comovida" (1979-1981), 'Marilha', narrative sequence (two novels: Grito em Chamas e Ciclone de Setembro", Passenger in Transit; "Diaries (Relação de Bordo, I,II, III," "A Tabuada do Tempo"; short stories: "Trasfega", "Cães Letrados", "A descoberta da cidade e outras hstórias";Poetry: "Mãos Vazias"; "O pão da Palavra", "Sonetos de Amor Ilhéu"; Essays:"No Segundo Centenário da Reforma Pombalina"; "Com Paulo Quintela À Mesa da Tertúlia", "Charlas Sobre a Língua Portuguesa"; "Miguel Torga, o Lavrador das Letras" "Emigração e outros temas Ilhéus"; Translations: "Adam Smith, the Wealth of Nations"; "Noble Architecture" (from Portuguese into English).