Luís Cardoso
Luís Cardoso de Noronha (born December 8, 1958 in Cailaco , Portuguese Timor ) is a writer from East Timor who writes in Portuguese .
Cardoso attended the Colégio in Soibada , the seminary in Dare and the Liceu Francisco Machado in Dili . After the Carnation Revolution in 1974, he went to Portugal to continue his education at the Instituto Superior de Agronomia , where he studied forestry. Because of the Indonesian invasion of East Timor, Cardoso stayed in Portugal. There he got involved in the Conselho Nacional de Resistência Maupe , the umbrella organization of the East Timorese resistance against the Indonesians. Professionally he works as a teacher for Portuguese and Tetum .
In his works, which have been translated into several languages, Cardoso repeatedly takes up the history of his homeland. In Requiem para o navegador solitário from 2007 he writes about the French sailor Alain Gerbault , who died in Dili in 1941. In O ano em que Pigafetta completou a circum-navegação from 2013 Cardoso tells the story of three ships that played an important role in the history of East Timor: the O Arbiru , the Lusitânia Expresso and the Victoria , with which Antonio Pigafetta was the first European Reached the island of Timor . In his partly autobiographical novel Crónica de uma travessia - A época do ai-dik-funam , Cardoso writes about the liberation struggle against the Indonesians.
Works
- Crónica de uma travessia - A época do ai-dik-funam ( German Chronicle of a crossing , English The Crossing ) (1997)
- Olhos de Coruja, Olhos de Gato Bravo (2001)
- A última morte do Coronel Santiago (2003)
- Requiem para o navegador solitário (2007)
- O ano em que Pigafetta completou a circum-navegação (2012)
literature
- Damares Barbosa: Roteiro da Literatura de Timor-Leste em Língua Portuguesa , Hucitec Editora 2017, ISBN 978-85-8404-140-4 .
Web links
- Criticism of Timothy Mo to The Crossing (22 July 2000)
Individual evidence
- ↑ RTP notícias: Ainda é cedo para se escrever a História de Timor - Escritor Luís Cardoso , November 25, 2015 , accessed on May 26, 2016.
- ↑ Sapo: Escritor timorense Luís Cardoso em Díli para lançar última obra , November 22, 2013 ( Memento of the original from May 26, 2016 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 May 26, 2016.
- ↑ Plural Editores Timor-Leste: Luís Cardoso de Noronha , accessed on May 26, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cardoso, Luís |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cardoso de Noronha, Luís (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | East Timorese author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 8, 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cailaco , Portuguese Timor |