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Agostinho Neto

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Agostinho Neto

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Also known as António Agostinho Neto

President of Angola (1975-1979)

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Agostinho Neto (1922–1979) was an Angolan politician, poet, physician, and writer who served as the President of Angola. Born in Ícolo e Bengo, he was a member of the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola. His literary works, written in Portuguese, include *O caminho das estrelas*, *Náusea*, and *Sobre a libertação nacional*.

Neto was educated at the University of Coimbra and the University of Lisbon. He received several international honors, including the Lenin Peace Prize, the Order of Lenin, the Order of Playa Girón, and the Order of the Companions of O. R. Tambo. He died in Moscow from pancreatic cancer and was buried in Luanda.

Synthesized by Vinony from 32 facts across 5 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Last.fm, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
1922-09-17
Died
1979-09-10
Works
25

Top works

  • Zvezdnyi putʹ
  • Destruir o velho para construir o novo
  • O caminho das estrelas
  • Náusea
  • Sobre a libertação nacional

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Music · MusicBrainz

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
32
Total plays
65

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. The electronic properties of graphene

    · 2009 · cited 22,714x

  2. 2D materials and van der Waals heterostructures

    · 2016 · cited 6,882x

  3. UniProt: the Universal Protein Knowledgebase in 2023

    · 2022 · cited 6,757x

  4. UniProt: the universal protein knowledgebase in 2021

    · 2020 · cited 6,036x

  5. The Immune Landscape of Cancer

    · 2018 · cited 4,775x

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Encyclopedic overview

António Agostinho Neto Kilamba (17 September 1922 – 10 September 1979) was an Angolan communist revolutionary, politician and poet. He served as the first president of Angola from 1975 to 1979, after leading the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) during the war for independence. He led the MPLA during the beginning of the Angolan Civil War, which began in 1975 and lasted until 2002. An author of several books, he is considered Angola's preeminent poet. His birthday is celebrated as National Heroes' Day, a public holiday in Angola.

Early life and education

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Agostinho Neto” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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