Gina Pinto
WRITER RESEARCHER EDITOR
BOOK
Partly Portuguese Almost Australian
Gina Pinto and Cristina Coelho, using their Australian sense of humour and Portuguese influences, capture their parents' stories, spanning 50 years since their migration from southern Portugal to their arrival in Australia.
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As daughters of Algarvians who ​migrated to Australia in the 1950s and 1960s, the authors' curiosity about their own families' stories grew into a fascination with many other Portuguese tales.
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Gina and Cristina, influenced by their, Australian birthplace and education, and their Portuguese heritage capture these stories to reveal the soul and contributions of this hard working, humble, visibly growing and important community. This book is essential reading for all those with Portuguese blood, have been touched by the Portuguese warmth or enjoyed a Portuguese meal.
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ISBN-9780977524105
"Through patient research, a concern for Australian-Portuguese history, culture and love of good food, they have written an affectionate immigrants' saga that is rich in unexpected information, colour and humour."
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Marion Kaplan - British Author The Portuguese: The Land and its People
"This book is the first of its kind in Australia ... essential for anyone who knows a Portuguese person or is one!"
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Anabella de Sousa -
Australian-Portuguese Journalist