Arménio Vieira
Arménio Vieira | |
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Arménio Vieira at the café Cachito in Praia in 1997. | |
Born | Arménio Adroaldo Vieira e Silva 29 January 1941 Praia, Cape Verde |
Occupation | writer, poet, journalist |
Arménio Adroaldo Vieira e Silva (Portuguese pronunciation: [ɐɾˈmɛniu ɐðɾuˈaldu viˈɐjɾɐ i ˈsilvɐ]; born January 29, 1941) is a Cape Verdean writer, poet and journalist. He began his activity during the 1960s, collaborated in SELÓ, Boletim de Cabo Verde, Vértice (Coimbra) review, Raízes, Ponto & Vírgula, Fragmentos, Sopinha de Alfabeto and others.
Three of his poems— Lisboa (1971), Quiproquo and Ser tigre— can be found on the CD Poesia de Cabo Verde e Sete Poemas de Sebastião da Gama by Afonso Dias.[1]
He won the Camões Prize in 2009 on the work O Poema, a Viagem, o Sonho.[2]
His poems were celebrated by Mito Elias (also simply as Mito) in Praia and Mindelo in 2011.[3]
He started a series of "versions of books, poetic and miscellaneous notes" in June 2013 with O Brumário, later Derivações do Brumário and recently Fantasmas e Fantasias do Brumário in 2014.
Works
- 1971: Lisboa (Lisbon)
- Around 1971 and 1972: Quiproquo and Ser tigre
- 1981: Poemas - África Editora - Colecção Cântico Geral - Lisbon
- 1990: O Eleito do Sol - Edição Sonacor EP - Grafedito - Praia
- 1998: Poemas (reedited) - Ilhéu Editora - Mindelo
- 2006: MITOgrafias - Portuguese Cultural Center - Praia and Mindelo - novel
- 2009: O Poema, a Viagem, o Sonho - Caminho Publishers, Lisbon - poems
- 2013: O Brumário
- Derivações do Brumário, 2013
- Fantasmas e Fantasias do Brumário, 2014
Notes
- ^ "Objectos do quotidiano de Cabo Verde mostram-se em Lisboa na "Casa Fernando Pessoa". A Semana. 25 June 2007. Archived from the original on 2016-02-03. Retrieved 2016-02-24.
- ^ "2009 Camões Prize for the poet Arménio Vieira" (in French). ActuaLitté. 4 June 2009.
- ^ "Mito Celebrated Poems by Arménio Vieira in Praia and Mindelo". Expresso das Ilhas (in Portuguese). 10 September 2011.[permanent dead link]
External links
- Vozes Poéticas da Lusofonia (Lusophony Poetic Voices) (in Portuguese)
- Arménio Vieira – liberdade e coerência na poesia do poeta-gato cabo-verdiano (África e Africanidades) Brazil, 2nd year, no. 6, August 2009
Preceded by | Camões Prize 2009 | Succeeded by Ferreira Gullar |
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- Angola
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- Cape Verde
- East Timor
- Equatorial Guinea
- Bissau-Guinea
- Macau
- Mozambique
- Portugal
- São Tomé and Príncipe
- 1989 Miguel Torga
- 1990 João Cabral de Melo Neto
- 1991 José Craveirinha
- 1992 Vergílio Ferreira
- 1993 Rachel de Queiroz
- 1994 Jorge Amado
- 1995 José Saramago
- 1996 Eduardo Lourenço
- 1997 Pepetela
- 1998 Antonio Candido
- 1999 Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen
- 2000 Autran Dourado
- 2001 Eugénio de Andrade
- 2002 Maria Velho da Costa
- 2003 Rubem Fonseca
- 2004 Agustina Bessa-Luís
- 2005 Lygia Fagundes Telles
- 2006 José Luandino Vieira (declined award)
- 2007 António Lobo Antunes
- 2008 João Ubaldo Ribeiro
- 2009 Arménio Vieira
- 2010 Ferreira Gullar
- 2011 Manuel António Pina
- 2012 Dalton Trevisan
- 2013 Mia Couto
- 2014 Alberto da Costa e Silva
- 2015 Hélia Correia
- 2016 Raduan Nassar
- 2017 Manuel Alegre
- 2018 Germano Almeida
- 2019 Chico Buarque
- 2020 Vítor Manuel de Aguiar e Silva
- 2021 Paulina Chiziane
- 2022 Silviano Santiago