Manuel Lopes

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Manuel Lopes (December 23, 1907 in Mindelo - January 25, 2005) was a Cape Verdean fictionist, poet and an essayist and a founder of the modern Cape Verdean literature, with Baltasar Lopes da Silva, Jorge Barbosa was a creator of the paper named Claridade..

Manuel Lopes written texts in Portuguese, and utilized several works expressed in Capeverdean Crioulo.

Manuel Lopes was born on December 23, 1907 in Mindelo on the island of São Vicente. He emigrated along with his family to Coimbra in Portugal in 1908 to attend a lyceum. Four years later, he returned to Cape Verde and he functioned at an English company. In 1936, with Baltasar Lobes, he wrote the paper Claridade and were written with nine numbers. In 1944, he transferred to the island of Faial in the Azores, he later lived in Lisbon in 1959 until his death.

He has written several books including Chuva Braba (1956), O Galo Que Cantou na Baia (1959), Os Flagelados do Vento Leste (1959). Os Flagelados do Vento Leste was adapted into a movie directed by António Faria in 1987.

Manuel Lopes was also an author of other titles including Horas Vagas (1934), Temas Cabo-verdianos (essay, 1950), 'Crioulo e Outros (1964), Personagens de Ficção e os seus Modelos (1971) and Falucho Ancorado (1997).

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Fiction

Chuva Braba (Falling Rains), 1956 - novel - Fernão Mendes Pinto Award
O Galo Que Cantou na Baía (and other in cabo–verdianos), 1959 novel - Fernão Mendes Pinto Award
Os Flagelados do Vento Leste (Victims of the East Wind), 1959 - novel - Prémio Meio Milénio do Achamento de Cabo Verde

Poems

Horas Vagas, 1934 - poem
Poema de Quem Ficou, 1949 - poem
Crioulo e Outros Poemas (Creole and Other Poems), 1964 - poem
Falucho Ancorado, 1997 - poetic anthology

Proses

Monografia Descritiva Regional (Regional Descriptive Monography), 1932
Paul, 1932
Temas Cabo-verdianos (Cape Veredan Themes), 1950 - essay
Os Meios Pequenos e a Cultura, 1951
Reflexões Sobre a Literatura Cabo-Verdiana (Reflections Under the Cape Verdean Literature), 1959
As Personagens de Ficção e Seus Modelos (The Persons of Fiction and Other Models), 1971 - essay