Gabriela Antunes

Maria Gabriela Antunes Cardoso da Silva Antunes , Gabriela Antunes for short , (born July 8, 1937 in Nova Lisboa , Portuguese Angola ; † April 3, 2004 in Lisbon , Portugal ) was an Angolan writer and teacher .

Life

Youth and education

Gabriela Antunes was born on July 8, 1937 in the city of Nova Lisboa - today Huambo - formerly part of the Portuguese colony of Angola. After completing school, she completed a degree in German at the University of Lisbon until December 1961. During this time, she also stayed in the Casa dos Estudantes do Império , a student house in which mainly lusophone students from the African colonies gathered and which served as the nucleus of the Luso-African liberation movements.

Antunes later returned to Angola, where she initially taught English at the Escola Comercial e Industrial Sarmento Rodrigues in her home town of Nova Lisboa. In 1973/74 Antunes completed a post-doctoral degree in pedagogy and didactics of the English languages.

Professional background

After Angola gained independence in 1975, Antunes worked primarily as a teacher for Portuguese, English and German at various schools in Luanda, including the Escola Vicente Ferreira (later Escola 1º de Maio ), the Instituto Comercial de Luanda and the Colégio Vasco da Gama .

In 1980 the Angolan state transferred Antunes to the Ministry of Education in the State Secretariat for Culture in order to produce children's books in a small group with other authors on behalf of the state and to design the children's page of the state newspaper Jornal de Angola . As part of this activity, Antunes published her first children's book together with Rosalina Pombal in 1982 with the title A águia, a rola, a galinha e os 50 lweis (in German: "The eagle, the turtle dove, the hen and the 50 Lweis "). She also published other books: A Abelha eo Pássaro (German: Die Biene und der Vogel; 1982), Luhuna o Menino que Não Conhecia Flor-viva (German: Luhana, the boy who did not know Flor-Viva; 1983), Kibala o rei Leão (German: Kiberal and the Lion King; 1983), O Castigo do Dragão Glutão (German: Die Strafe des Drachen Glutão; 1983).

As early as 1983, the Ministry of Education and Culture nominated her to head the Angolan National Library . At the same time she began to supervise a journalism course at the Makarenko Institute (later Instituto Médio de Economia de Luanda) and to give seminars in Angolan art and literature. In 1984 the Angolan Writers' Union ( União dos Escritores Angolanos ) took on Antunes. Later she lectured at the private Instituto Superior Privado de Angola (ISPRA).

Awards

In 1999 Antunes won the Prize of the Fundação Casa de Cultura de Língua Portuguesa for her efforts to preserve the Portuguese language in her home country. In 2000, the Portuguese Embassy in Angola at the Instituto Camões in Luanda also honored her for her efforts.

death

Gabriela Antunes died on April 3, 2004 in Lisbon after she was in the Portuguese capital for medical treatment. She was buried in the Alto das Cruzes cemetery in Luanda.

Works

• A Águia, a Rola, as Galinhas e os 50 Lwei (together with Rosalina Pombal; 1982)
• A Abelha eo Pássaro (1983)
• Luhuna o Menino que Não Conhecia Flor-viva (1983)
• Kibala, o rei leão (1983)
• O Castigo do Dragão Glutão (1983)
• Histórias Velhas, Roupa Nova (1988)
• O Cubo Amarelo. Luanda (1991)
• Crónicas apressadas: ano um (2002)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Morte de Gabriela Antunes deixa um vazio na literatura infantil angolana. Angop - Agência Angola Press, April 7, 2004, accessed October 4, 2016 (Portuguese). 
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} União dos Escritores Angolanos - Maria Gabriela Antunes Cardoso da Silva Antunes. União dos Escritores Angolanos, accessed October 4, 2016 (Portuguese). 
3. ^ W. Martin James: Historical Dictionary of Angola (=  Historical Dictionaries of Africa . Volume 92 ). New edition edition. The Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Maryland / Toronto / Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-8108-4940-2 , pp. 8th f .
4. ↑ Escritora Gabriela Antunes morre vítima de doença. (No longer available online.) In: Nexus.ao. April 5, 2004, archived from the original on October 4, 2016 ; Retrieved October 4, 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.  
5. ↑ Gabriela Antunes foi a enterrar esta tarde no Alto das Cruzes - ANGONOTÍCIAS. In: ANGONOTÍCIAS. Retrieved April 8, 2004, October 4, 2016 (Portuguese).