Leite de Vasconcelos (writer)

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Teodomiro Alberto Azevedo Leite de Vasconcelos (born August 4, 1944 in Arcos de Valdevez , Portugal , † January 29, 1997 in Johannesburg , South Africa ) was a Mozambican writer and journalist.

Leite de Vasconcelos came to Mozambique in the year of his birth and received Mozambican citizenship. He spent his childhood in Beira and later studied social science in Lourenço Marques . He began his career as a radio journalist at the radio station Rádio do Aeroclube da Beira . From 1969 he worked for the station Rádio Clube de Moçambique . Since he was politically active against the colonial regime , he had to leave the country in 1972 and went to Portugal. There, too, he campaigned for the opposition. So he founded the program "Limite" on the Catholic radio station Rádio Renascença , in which he read the first verse of the song " Grândola, Vila Morena " by José Afonso on April 25, 1974 and then played the song. This had been agreed as the starting signal for the Carnation Revolution .

After Mozambique gained independence from Portugal, he returned to Mozambique in 1975 and worked as a journalist for the radio and for numerous Mozambican magazines. In addition to his journalistic activities, he worked as a teacher, actor and political commentator. From 1981 to 1988 he was head of the state radio station Rádio Moçambique . He was also a board member of the National Association of Journalists and the Mozambican Writers' Association Associação dos Escritores Moçambicanos .

Leite de Vasconcelos died in Johannesburg in 1997 after a serious illness.

The film O Gotejar da Luz by Fernando Vendrell was 2001, a film version of his story of the same name.

Works

  • Irmão do Universo , Maputo, Associação dos Escritores Moçambicanos , 1994 - (poems)
  • Resumos, Insumos e Dores Emergentes , Maputo, Associação dos Escritores Moçambicanos, 1997 - (poems, posthumous)
  • Pela Boca Morre o Peixe , Maputo, Associação dos Amigos de Leite de Vasconcelos, 1999 - (Chronicles, posthumous)
  • As Mortes de Lucas Tadeu , Coimbra, Cena Lusófona, 2000 - (play, posthumous)
  • A Nona Pata da Aranha , Maputo, Promédia, 2004 - (short stories, posthumous)

His story O Gotejar da Luz was filmed in 2001 by Fernando Vendrell .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography on Jornalismomocambicano.blogspot.com (accessed December 28, 2009)
  2. ↑ Biography on Ma-Schamba.com ( Memento of the original from December 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) 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. (accessed December 28, 2009) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ma-schamba.com
  3. ↑ Biography on Poets of Moçambique  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on December 29, 2009)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.poetsofmozambique.com  
personal data
SURNAME Vasconcelos, Head of
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vasconcelos, Teodomiro Alberto Azevedo Leite de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mozambican writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Arcos de Valdevez , Portugal
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 1997
Place of death Johannesburg , South Africa