Ana de Santana

Ana Paula de Jesus Faria Santana , also Ana de Santana or Ana Koluki for short (born October 20, 1960 in Gabela , Cuanza Sul Province , Portuguese Angola ), is an Angolan poet and writer.

Life

Ana de Santana was born on October 20, 1960 in Gabela County in the Angolan coastal province of Cuanza Sul, but grew up with her family in the capital Luanda . She studied economics in Lisbon and at the University of Westminster (BA), and completed her Masters in economic history and development studies at the London School of Economics (LSE).

Santana has been a member of the Angolan Writers' Union since 1985, first publishing in the Angolan magazine Archote . In 1986 Santana published her first collection of poems with the title “Sabores, Odores e Sonho” (Eng .: tastes, rumors and dreams). In her poems, Santana reflects on the conflict in Angola after independence and the hurdles, difficulties and challenges in everyday life. These imponderables and turmoil are also evident in the abruptly ending verses of Santana's poems.

In his work A History of Twentieth-Century African Literatures, Oyekan Owomoyela describes Santana and the author Ana Paula Tavares as special individualists in the Angolan literary landscape of the 1980s, which was primarily male. Luís Kandjimbo assigns Santana to a series of writers whom he calls the Generation of Uncertainties ( Geração das Incertezas ). This generation cultivated a fearful, painful and melancholy writing style. Kandjimbo also includes the authors João Maimona , José Eduardo Agualusa , Lopito Feijoó and João de Melo .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Carmen Lucia Tindó Ribeiro Secco: A poesia angolana pós-independência: tendências e impasses . In: Impactum. Coimbra University Press (Ed.): Veredas . No. 7 . Coimbra 2006 (: http://hdl.handle.net/10316.2/34475 ).
2. ↑ Olga Sánchez Guevara: Ana de Santana: poemas. In: Cuba Literaria. June 21, 2013, Retrieved September 5, 2016 (Spanish).