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Olinda Beja (born1946 in São Tomé and Príncipe) moved to Portugal at an early age, studying linguistics and modern literature there. Her poems deal with interpersonal relations in all their facets, including romantic transformation, beauty, yearning, living together, hurt, mourning and sex. Since 2002, Beja has been a fellow of the C. Nacional de Cultura/I.P.L.B. and an advisor on cultural matters to her homeland's Embassy in Portugal. Her poems have appeared in national and international magazines, in French and Portuguese schoolbooks and in various anthologies. Beja currently lives in Lausanne, Switzerland where she works as a teacher of Portuguese language and culture.