Baltasar Lopes da Silva
Baltasar Lopes da Silva (born April 23, 1907 in Caleijão , São Nicolau ; † May 28, 1989 in Lisbon ) was a Cape Verdean poet and author.
Life
Da Silva was born in 1907 in the village of Calejão on the Cape Verde island of São Nicolau . He attended the seminary in Ribeira Brava on his home island. He later studied in Portugal at the University of Lisbon , among others with the important figures of Portuguese culture Vitorino Nemésio and Luís da Câmara Reis . He graduated in law and romance philology. In 1945 he turned down a call as professor of literary studies at the University of Lisbon.
After his return he worked as a teacher at what was then Liceu Gil Eanes in Mindelo on the island of São Vicente . For several years he was principal of the school until 1972. He returned to Portugal and briefly taught in Leiria . Because of the difficulties of relations between Cape Verde and Portuguese politics at the time, he returned to Cape Verde, where he continued his teaching and legal work.
He spent his last days in Lisbon, where he had been transferred for treatment for a cerebrovascular disease, and died there on May 28, 1989.
The family of Baltasar Lopes da Silva includes António Aurélio Gonçalves and the poet José Lopes da Silva .
Literary work
Da Silva wrote in both Portuguese and Cape Verdean Creole . In the first half of the 20th century, he was one of the first Cape Verdean writers, alongside Jorge Barbosa and Manuel Lopes, to be influenced by the literary movements in Brazil . Baltasar Lopes founded the Cape Verdean literary magazine Claridade ( Clarity ) in 1936 together with Manuel Lopes and Jorge Barbosa . In addition to the founders, Manuel Ferreira , António Aurélio Gonçalves , Francisco José Tenreiro , and Daniel Filipe also published in it . Claridade published essays, poems and short stories. They dealt with the social problems of socially disadvantaged groups such as drought, hunger and emigration.
In 1947 he wrote his only novel Chiquinho , which is considered to be the groundbreaking and greatest novel in Cape Verdean literature. Chiquinho describes the customs, people, landscapes and social problems of Cape Verde in the early 20th century. It is a development novel about the people of Cape Verde up to one step that many took: emigration. The novel consists of three parts:
- Infância (childhood). The protagonist Chiquinho lives with his family in the village of Caleijão on São Nicolau and is learning to read.
- Sao Vicente ; Chiquinho continues his education at a secondary school in São Vicente. Here he meets his first love, Nuninha . Chiquinho and his classmates found the Grémio a society and a magazine. This is very similar to Claridade in the sense that it aims to change the social realities of the archipelago.
- As Águas (The Waters). Chiquinho returns to his home island and becomes a teacher. This part deals with the drought and water shortage in Cape Verde and the resulting famine. At the end of the novel, Chiquinho emigrates to the United States of America in search of a better life.
Da Silva also published works under the pseudonym Osvaldo Alcântara .
Legal activity
Da Silva became known in his home country as the "advocate of the people". He defended people from the lower classes who had no money to buy a lawyer to bring justice to victory. In the short novel "A Caderneta" (The Notebook) da Silva describes how he became the defender of the lawless.
Works
- Chiquinho (1947)
- A Caderneta
- Cabo Verde visto por Gilberto Freyre ( Cape Verde visited by Gilberto Freyre ); (1956)
- O dialecto crioulo de Cabo Verde , a linguistic description of Cape Verdean Creole (1957).
- Antologia da Ficção Cabo-Verdiana Contemporânea ( Contemporary Anthology of Cape Verdean Fiction ) (1961)
- Cântico da Manhã Futura (1986), book of poems under the pseudonym Osvaldo Alcântara
- Os Trabalhos e os Dias (short stories, 1987)
Honors and reception
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The Avenida Baltazar Lopez in Mindelo bears his name. Da Silva was depicted on a 500 escudo banknote issued between 1992 and 2000 . The back is made up of Ilhéu dos Pássaros and its ships. The University of Lisbon awarded him an honorary doctorate.
His poems Ressaca were published on the CD Poesia de Cabo Verde e Sete Poemas de Sebastião da Gama by Afonso Dias .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lima Sousa: O Centenário da Claridade em São Vicente . March 25, 2007. Archived from the original on February 3, 2016. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 26, 2016.
- ↑ "Chiquinho" is "founding work of the Cape Verdean literature" .
- ^ Albert Gerard: European-language Writing in Sub-Saharan Africa . John Benjamin Publishing, 1986.
- ↑ a b c on web. archive.org archived website BALTAZAR LOPES da SILVA: Writer, Teacher, Lawyer from caboverde online.com, accessed August 12, 2018
- ^ Biography of Lopez da Silva in the Encyclopedia Britannica online.
- ↑ a b c d DR.Baltasar Lopes Da Silva "considerações" .
- ↑ a b c Baltasar Lopes da Silva - April 23, 1907 - May 28, 1989 .
- ^ "Chiquinho" é "obra fundadora da literatura cabo-verdiana . April 22, 2010.
- ↑ a b c Chiquinho and Baltasar: Mark of Cape Verde's literature . Archived from the original on November 9, 2016. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 9, 2016.
- ↑ Cabo Verde visto por Gilberto Freyre: apontamentos lidos ao microfone de Radio Barlavento .
- ↑ Antologia since ficção cabo-verdiana Contemporânea .
- ↑ Objectos do quotidiano de Cabo Verde mostram-se em Lisboa na "Casa Fernando Pessoa . June 25, 2007. Archived from the original on February 3, 2016. Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 26, 2016.
literature
- Leão Lopes : Baltasar Lopes 1907-1989. 3 volumes, (PhD thesis in Portuguese at the University of Rennes 2 , 2002; the author's first comprehensive biography published in 2011)
Web links
- Baltasar da Silva Lopes on britannica.com
- Baltazar Lopes da Silva
- Baltazar Lopes da Silva (English) ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Silva, Baltasar Lopes there |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Cape Verdean poet and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 23, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Caleijão, São Nicolau |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 28, 1989 |
| Place of death | Lisbon |