Francisco Santos (swimmer)

Francisco Jos Ribeiro Lopes dos Santos, known mainly as Francisco Santos is an AngolanPortuguese multitalent artist with many names and faces. As Francisco Lopes Santos he is likely to be known as a swimmer. Art enthusiasts may know him as the visual artist Xesko, lovers of poetry as Elias Karipande, fantasy and science fiction fans as Alan J. Banta. As a writer, published in English and Portuguese.

The heteronym Alan J. Banta is described as a civil engineer, born in 1952 in Kakamas, a village located in the Northern Cape, South Africa but living and working in Angola. After independence, in 1975, remained in the country, for he considers his true home. This heteronym, emerges as a prolific writer of fantasy and science fiction, because of their South African origins and English education, is tending to express in a very classical way. According Francisco Santos, Alan J. Banta, appears for the necessity of the author has in distancing his students life from his fantasies.

Source: Wikipedia