João Aguiar (writer)

João Casimiro Namorado de Aguiar (28 October 1943 – 3 June 2010) was a Portuguese writer and journalist.

After working for a time in the Portuguese tourist industry in Brussels and Amsterdam, he studied journalism at the Free University of Brussels and in 1976 returned to Portugal to work as a journalist.

In 1981 he was named press secretary of the Ministry of Quality of Life, a short-lived government department concerned with sports and the environment.

He was a regular contributor to the monthly magazine Superinteressante and sat on its editorial board.

He dedicated himself to literature, being one of the most acclaimed Portuguese novelists in the genre of the historical novel.