Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho was born on August 31, 1936 in Lourenço Marques, Mozambique (now Maputo, Mozambique). He was an actor and writer, known for Gestures and Fragments: An Essay on the Military and Power (1983), Monsanto (2000) and A Hora da Liberdade (1999). He was previously married to Dina Maria Afonso Alambre. He died on July 25, 2021 in Lisbon, Portugal.