João Vário

João Vário (June 7, 1937 in Mindelo on São Vicente Island, Cape Verde - August 7, 2007 in Mindelo on Island, Cape Verde) was a Cape Verdean writer, neurosurgeon, scientist and professor. The name was a pseudonym of João Manuel Varela. Other aliases included Timóteo Tio Tiofe and G. T. Didial.

He studied medicine in the universities of Coimbra and Lisbon. He earned a doctorate from the University of Antwerp in Belgium. He was an researcher and professor of neuropathology and neurobiology. He returned to his native Mndelo.

He also wrote several poems. He influenced writers such as Saint-John Perse, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and Aimé Césaire.

Works

• Exemplos 1-9 (Examples 1-9), volume that included General Example (Exemplo Geral), Relative Example (Exemplo Relativo), Dubious Example (Exemplo Dúbio) and Propriate Example (Exemplo Próprio)
• Cadernos de Notcha, under the pseudonym Timóteo Tio Tiofe
• Contos da Macaronésia (Tales From Macaronesia)
• The State Impenitene On Fragility) O Estado impenitente da Fragilidade

João Vário

External links

All in Portuguese:

• João Vário a great Cape Verdean writer
• Corsino Fortes and Osvaldo Osório on João Vário