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1831–1875
A 19th-century Portuguese-language writer remembered today for the political work Verdades amargas, he appears in major public-domain and reader catalogs but remains lightly documented online.
by Cláudio José Nunes
Cláudio José Nunes lived from 1831 to 1875. The clearest detail consistently confirmed across public book catalogs is his authorship of Verdades amargas, a Portuguese-language work that is listed by Project Gutenberg and reader databases.
Because reliable biographical information about him is scarce in the sources available online, it is best to describe him cautiously as a 19th-century Lusophone author whose surviving reputation seems tied above all to that political title. In other words, his work is easier to verify than the details of his life.
That relative obscurity can be interesting in itself: he belongs to the large group of writers who left a trace through a single surviving book, inviting modern readers to rediscover a voice that once spoke directly to the social and political concerns of his time.