Gabriel Mariano
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| Gabriel Mariano | |
| Born | May 18, 1928 Ribeira Grande, Cape Verde |
|---|---|
| Died | February 28, 2002 Lisbon, Portugal |
| Occupation | actor |
José Gabriel Lopes da Silva, also known as Gabriel Mariano, (May 18, 1928 in Ribeira Grande – February 18, 2002 in Lisbon, Portugal was a Cape Verdean poet and an essayist.
He studied at São Joaquim and gruaduated as director in Lisbon. He returned into Cape Verde 1950 where he participated in the creation of the restoration journal (with Jorge Pedro Barbosa and others), the Cultural Supplement (with Carlos Alberto Monteiro and others) an Boletim Cabo Verde. His intense cultural activity brought himseld with subversive considerated for the local governor and he was deported to Mozambique.
He published poems, novels and essays, in Portuguese and Cape Verdean Crioulo languages.
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- A Mestiçagem: seu papel na formação da sociedade caboverdeana (an essay published in "Suplemento Cultural", 1958)
- Do Funco ao Sobrado ou o Mundo que o Mulato Criou (a published essay in "Colóquios Caboverdeanos", 1959)
- 12 Poemas de Circunstâncias (12 Poems of Circumstances) (1965)
- Amor e partida na poesia crioula de Eugénio Tavares ou inquietação amorosa
- Capitão Ambrósio (Captain Ambrósio)
- Inquietação e serenidade. Aspectos da insularidade na poesia de Caboverde
- Nome de casa e nome de igreja
- O Rapaz Doente (1963)
- Osvaldo Alcântara — O Caçador de heranças ou inquietação social
- Uma Introdução à Poesia de Jorge Barbosa (An Introduction Of Poetry From Jorge Barbosa
- Vida e Morte de João Cabafume (Via Editora, 1976)
- Cultura Caboverdeana (Capeverdean Culture) (essays, Vega, 1991)
- Ladeira Grande (poetic anthology, editora Vega, 1993)
