João Vário

João Vário
Born	(1937-06-07)7 June 1937 Mindelo, São Vicente, Cape Verde
Died	7 September 2007(2007-09-07) (aged 70) Mindelo, São Vicente, Cape Verde
Occupation	writer, neurosurgeon, scientist, professor

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 a researcher and professor of neuropathology and neurobiology. He returned to his native Mindelo where he lived until his death

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) under the pseudonym G. T. Didial

Further reading

• Cristóvão, Fernando (2005). Texto Editores (ed.). Dicionário Temático da Lusofonia. ISBN 972-47-2935-4.
• Serrano, Luís. «João Vário, Esse Grande Escritor Cabo-Verdiano». Aveiro: 2007, in O Portal das Memórias de África e do Oriente.

External links

• João Vário a great Cape Verdean writer (Portuguese)
• Corsino Fortes and Osvaldo Osório on João Vário (Portuguese)
• Para exemplo (coevo) de João Vário, por António Jacinto Pascoal
• Baroque Example: A Poetic Paradigm from João Vário, by Rui Guilherme Gabriel (in Italian and Portuguese)
• Exit from the Divided Paradigm, a Part of the Letter from João Vário, by Silvina Rodrigues Lopes (in Portuguese)