Baltasar Lopes da Silva

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Baltasar Lopes da Silva (Caleijão, São Nicolau, 23 April 1907 - São Vicente, 28 May 1989) was a writer, poet and linguist from Cape Verde, who wrote in both Portuguese and Capeverdean Crioulo. With Manuel Lopes and Jorge Barbosa, he was the founder of Claridade. In 1947 he wrote Chiquinho, considered the greatest Cape Verdean novel. He sometimes wrote under the pseudonym Osvaldo Alcântara.

[edit] Works

• Chiquinho (1947)
• O dialecto crioulo de Cabo Verde, a description of the Cape Verdean creole languages (1957).

[edit] External links

• Baltasar da Silva Lopes on britannica.com
• Baltazar Lopes da Silva