Arménio Vieira
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Arménio Vieira at the café Cachito in Praia in 1997. | |
| Born |
29 January 1941 Praia, Cape Verde |
| Occupation | writer, poet, journalist |
Arménio Adroaldo Vieira e Silva (Portuguese pronunciation: [ɐɾˈmɛniu ɐdɾuˈaldu viˈejɾɐ i ˈsilvɐ]; born January 29, 1941 in Praia, Cape Verde) is a Cape Verdean and a Portuguese writer, poet and journalist. He began his activity during the 1960s, collaborated in SELÓ, Boletim de Cabo Verde, Vértice (Coimbra) review, Raízes, Ponto & Vírgula, Fragmentos, Sopinha de Alfabeto and others.
Three of his poems— Lisboa (1971), Quiproquo and Ser tigre— can be found on the CD Poesia de Cabo Verde e Sete Poemas de Sebastião da Gama by Afonso Dias.[1]
He won the Camões Prize in 2009 on the work O Poema, a Viagem, o Sonho.[2]
His poems were celebrated by Mito Elias (also simply as Mito) in Praia and Mindelo in 2011.[3]
He started a series of "versions of books, poetic and miscellaneous notes" on June 2013 with O Brumário, later Derivações do Brumário and recently Fantasmas e Fantasias do Brumário in 2014.
Works
- 1971: Lisboa (Lisbon)
- Around 1971 and 1972: Quiproquo and Ser tigre
- 1981: Poemas - África Editora - Colecção Cântico Geral - Lisbon
- 1990: O Eleito do Sol - Edição Sonacor EP - Grafedito - Praia
- 1998: Poemas (reedited) - Ilhéu Editora - Mindelo
- 2006: MITOgrafias - Portuguese Cultural Center - Praia and Mindelo - novel
- 2009: O Poema, a Viagem, o Sonho - Caminho Publishers, Lisbon - poems
- 2013: O Brumário
- Derivações do Brumário, 2013
- Fantasmas e Fantasias do Brumário, 2014
Notes
- ↑ "Objectos do quotidiano de Cabo Verde mostram-se em Lisboa na "Casa Fernando Pessoa". A Semana. 25 June 2007.
- ↑ "2009 Camões Prize for the poet Arménio Vieira" (in French). ActuaLitté. 4 June 2009.
- ↑ "Mito Celebrated Poems by Arménio Vieira in Praia and Mindelo". Expresso das Ilhas (in Portuguese). 10 September 2011.
External links
- Vozes Poéticas da Lusofonia (Lusophony Poetic Voices) (in Portuguese)
- Arménio Vieira – liberdade e coerência na poesia do poeta-gato cabo-verdiano (África e Africanidades) Brazil, 2nd year, no. 6, August 2009
| Preceded by João Ubaldo Ribeiro |
Camões Prize 2009 |
Succeeded by Ferreira Gullar |