Luís Romano de Madeira Melo

Luís Romano de Madeira Melo (Santo Antão, Cabo Verde, 10 June 1922 - Brasil, 22 January 2010) was a bilingual poet, novelist, and folklorist who has written in Portuguese and the Capeverdean Crioulo of Santo Antão.^[1]

Born on the Capeverdean island of Santo Antão, he prefers to refer to the Capeverdean language as "língua cabo-verdiana". Romano lived in Brazil since 1962.

Publications

• Famintos (1962, novel in Portuguese)
• Clima (1963): Poems in Portuguese, Crioulo and in French
• Cabo Verde-Renascença de uma civilização no Atlântico médio (1967): Collection of poems and short-stories in Portuguese and Crioulo.
• Negrume/Lzimparin (1973): Short-stories in Crioulo with translations in Portuguese
• Ilha (1991): Shortstories from "Europafrica" and "Brasilamerica"; in Portuguese and partially in Crioulo)
• Kriolanda - Estigmas, 1999, São Vicente
• Kabverd Civilização e Cultura, 2000, Rio de Janeiro

Short-Stories

• "Nho Zidôr" (in Ilha), "Pasaport Kabverd" (in Ilha), "Daluz" (in Negrume), "Tánha" (in Negrume), "Destino" (in Negrume), "Estórias de Tipêde i Tilôbe" (in Cabo Verde-Renascença de uma civilização...)

External links

• Ti Lobo e Ti Pedro – Crioulo of Santo Antão
• Poems
• Luís Romano (in Portuguese)

References

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