Herberto

Herberto Sales (1917 – 1999) was a Brazilian journalist and writer. He was a member of Academia Brasileira de Letras.

Herberto Dumé (1929 – 2003) was a Cuban theater director.

Herberto Helder de Oliveira was a Portuguese poet. He was born in Funchal, Madeira. Herberto Helder was born in the Portuguese Atlantic island of Madeira. In 1946 he traveled to Lisbon to complete his secondary studies and subsequently in 1948 moved to Coimbra to study Law at university. In 1949 he had changed to the Humanities University to study Romance Philology but dropped out after three years without completing the course. After returning to Lisbon he took up several temporal jobs, and got in contact with a circle of artists and writers such as Mário Cesariny, Luiz Pacheco, João Vieira and Hélder Macedo. This group revolved around Surrealism which would inform his early writings. In 1958 his first book, O Amor em Visita was published. In the following years he traveled and lived in France, Holland and Belgium taking menial jobs to survive.