Alda Lara

Alda Ferreira Pires Barreto de Lara Albuquerque, known as Alda Lara (9 June 1930, Benguela, Angola - 30 January 1962, Cambambe, Angola) was a Portuguese language Angolan poet.[1][2]

Alda Lara attended Coimbra and Lisbon Universities. Her husband, the writer Orlando Albuquerque, set about publishing her collected works after her death.

The Alda Lara Prize (in Portuguese, Prémio Alda Lara) was established in her honour. Paulo de Carvalho, a famed Portuguese singer, who has had a strong artistic career, recorded "Preludio/Mãe Negra", a beautiful poem written by Alda Lara. Some other Lara known poemas: Testamento, Presenca Africana, Anuncio, Ronda, Poemas que Escrevia na Areia, etc. ...

Books (posthumous)

References

  1. ↑ "Alda Lara", Nação Ovimbundu.org
  2. ↑ Margaret Busby (ed.), Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent from the Ancient Egyptian to the Present, London: Jonathan Cape, 1992; Vintage, 1993.