Teolinda Gersão (born 1940) is a Portuguese writer.[1]
Born in Coimbra, she studied at the universities of Coimbra, Tübingen and Berlin. She also taught at Technische Universität Berlin, Lisbon University, and the Universidade de Lisboa, among others. A full-time writer since the mid-1990s, Gersao is the author of more than a dozen books. She has won several literary prizes for her work. Her novel The Word Tree set in colonial Mozambique, was translated into English by Margaret Jull Costa.