Ruy Duarte de Carvalho
Ruy Duarte de Carvalho | |
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| Born | Ruy Alberto Duarte Gomes de Carvalho 22 April 1941 Santarém, Portugal |
| Died | 12 August 2010 (aged 69) Swakopmund, Namibia |
| Occupation | poet, writer, anthropologist, filmmaker |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Nationality | Angolan |
| Education | Ph.M in Visual anthropology Ph.D in Ethnology and Social anthropology |
| Alma mater | School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences |
| Period | 1972–2010 |
Ruy Duarte de Carvalho was an Angolan author and filmmaker, whose work, which over more than three decades spanned poetry, metafiction, and anthropology, focused in the Kuvale people of the southern Angola.[1] Writing for Carvalho's entry in the Dictionary of African Biography (2012), Livia Apa commented that even if "In their complexity, Ruy Duarte de Carvalho's works are some of the most interesting and original works in contemporary Portuguese literature. Curiously, in spite of its importance, his work is rarely translated or taught abroad. Only a few of his books have been recently published in Brazil, and most of his films have disappeared, or been lost or badly damaged."[2]
References
- ^ Porto, Nuno (2007). "From Exhibiting to Installing Ethnography: Experiments at the Museum of Anthropology of the University of Coimbra, Portugal, 1999–2005". In MacDonald, Sharon; Basu, Paul (eds.). Exhibition Experiments. Blackwell Publishing. p. 189.
- ^ Apa, Livia (2012). Dictionary of African Biography. Oxford University Press. p. 39.