Ernesto Pires Barreto de Lara Filho (1932–1977) was a revolutionary Portuguese Angolan writer and agronomist and brother of Angolan poet Alda Lara.
Born in Benguela in 1932, he was educated in Angola and Portugal before he began work as a journalist in Luanda in the 1950s.
An outspoken supporter of Angolan independence, he was arrested by the Portuguese security agency PIDE for his revolutionary activities.
[1] In his life Ernesto Lara Filho published several notable books and anthologies of poetry.
He was also one of the founders of the Association of Angolan Writers after independence.