Manuel Lopes
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Manuel António de Sousa Lopes (December 23, 1907 - January 25, 2005) was a Cape Verdean novelist, poet and essayist. With Baltasar Lopes da Silva and Jorge Barbosa he was a founder of the journal Claridade, which contributed to the rise of Cape Verdean literature.[1] Manuel Lopes wrote in Portuguese, using expressions typical for Cape Verdean Portuguese and Cape Verdean Creole.
Manuel Lopes was born on December 23, 1907 in Mindelo on the island of São Vicente, Cape Verde, which was then a territory of Portugal. He moved to Coimbra in Mainland Portugal to attend secondary school. Aged 16, he returned to São Vicente and started working at an English company that exploited a transatlantic telegraph cable. Aged 23, he started working for a similar Italian company, but he lost his job due to the Second World War and settled on his farm on the island of Santo Antão. In 1944, back in service at his first employer, he transferred to the island of Faial in the Azores. After eleven years on Faial, he moved to Portugal.[2] He died in Lisbon in 2005.[1]
His novel Os Flagelados do Vento Leste was adapted into a movie directed by António Faria in 1987.
Works
Works by Manuel Lopes:[2]
- Fiction
- Chuva Braba, 1956, Fernão Mendes Pinto Award
- O galo que cantou na Baía, 1959
- Os Flagelados do Vento Leste, 1960, Prémio Meio Milénio do Achamento das Ilhas de Cabo Verde
- Poetry
- Poemas de quem ficou, 1949
- Crioulo e outros poemas, 1964
- Prose
- Paúl, 1932
- Os meios pequenos e a cultura, 1951 - essay
- Reflexões sobre a literatura cabo-verdiana, 1959 - essay
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Encyclopædia Britannica
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
External links
- "Manuel António dos Santos Lopes", Caboindex
