Chó do Guri

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Maria de Fátima - better known by her pseudonym Chó do Guri - (born January 24, 1959 in Quibala , Cuanza Sul province , Portuguese Angola ; † July 7, 2017 in Luanda ) was an Angolan poet and writer .

Life

Maria de Fátima was born on January 24, 1959 in the small town of Quibala in the Cuanza Sul province of the Portuguese colony of Angola. When she was two years old, Fátima moved with her mother to the capital Luanda , where they both initially lived in the Bairro Opérario district . When she was four years old, his mother gave Fátima to a house for disadvantaged children because she could no longer support them. Fátima grew up there and completed her school education in Luanda.

After completing school, Fátima first studied social work at the Universidade Aberta in Lisbon. In 1988 Fátima published her first poem under her pseudonym in the magazine Mural , a magazine of the Angolan student organization in Portugal. From then on, Fátima concentrated primarily on writing and published numerous works. In 1996 she published the first anthology of her poems under the title Vivências .

For her novel Chiquito de Camuxiba she won the 2003 Prize for African Literature in Portuguese from the Instituto Marquês de Valle Flor .

With the support of the Goethe Institute established in 2009 in the Angolan capital Luanda, Fátima also had her work A filha do Alemão translated into German.

Works

  • Vivências (1996, poems)
  • Bairro Operário - a minha história (1998, short stories)
  • Morfeu (2000, poems)
  • Chiquito de Camuxiba (2006, novel)
  • Na Boca Árida da kyanda (2006, poems)
  • A filha do Alemão (2007, novel)
  • Songuito e Katite (2009, children's book)
  • O Cambulador (2013, novel)
  • Pulas, Bumbas, Companhia Limitada e muita Cuca (2016, novel)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Décès de l'écrivain angolais Cho do Guri , accessed on September 8, 2017
  2. ↑ a b Chó do Guri. União dos Escritores Angolanos, accessed October 8, 2016 (Portuguese).
  3. ^ Goethe Institute apresenta livro "Filha do Alemão". Angop - Agência Angola Press, June 15, 2009, accessed October 8, 2016 (Portuguese).
  4. ↑ Escritora Angolana Cho do Guri lança 5ª obra Literária. Angop - Agência Angola Press, January 9, 2007, accessed October 8, 2010 (Portuguese).
  5. ↑ Mario Cohen: Escritora Chó do Guri lança "O Cambulador". In: Jornal de Angola. April 10, 2013, accessed October 8, 2016 (Portuguese).
  6. ↑ Jorge Fernandes: Chó do Guri lança “Pulas, Bumbas, Companhia Limitada e muita Cuca” in Março. (No longer available online.) February 23, 2016, archived from the original on October 8, 2016 ; Retrieved October 8, 2016 (Portuguese). 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / opais.co.ao
personal data
SURNAME Chó do Guri
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fátima, Maria de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Angolan poet and writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Quibala , Cuanza Sul Province , Portuguese Angola
DATE OF DEATH 7th July 2017
Place of death Luanda