Luís Carlos Patraquim

Luís Carlos Patraquim (born March 26, 1953 in Lourenço Marques , Mozambique ) is a Mozambican poet, theater writer and journalist.

biography

He worked as a journalist for the magazine A Voz de Moçambique , but had to flee to Sweden in 1973 . After Mozambique gained independence in 1975, he returned to his country, where he worked for the magazine A Tribuna . He was then a founding member of the Agência de Informação de Moçambique (AIM) news agency, headed by Mia Couto .

From 1977 to 1986 Patraquim worked as a screenwriter at the Instituto Nacional de Cinema de Moçambique (INC) and as editor of the film magazine Kuxa Kanema .

Together with Calane da Silva and Gulamo Khan , he directed the Gazeta de Artes e Letras in the magazine Tempo between 1984 and 1986 .

He has lived in Portugal since 1986 .

He works for the Mozambican and Portuguese press, writes screenplays and plays.

He is the editor of Lusografias magazine .

Works

• Monção . Lisboa e Maputo. Edições 70 e Instituto Nacional do Livro e do Disco, 1980.
• A inadiável viagem . Maputo, Associação de Escritores Moçambicanos , 1985.
• Vinte e tal novas formulações e uma elegia carnívora . Lisboa, ALAC, 1992.
• Mariscando Luas . Lisboa, Vega, 1992. ISBN 972-699-322-9
• Lidemburgo blues . Lisboa, Editorial Caminho, 1997. ISBN 972-21-1144-2
• O osso côncavo e outros poemas (1980-2004) . Lisboa, Editorial Caminho, 2005. ISBN 972-21-1674-6

Plays

• Karingana wa Karingana (2000)
• Vim-te buscar (2002)
• D'abalada
• Tremores íntimos anónimos (2003, with António Cabrita )
• No estaleiro geral (2004)

Awards

• Prémio Nacional de Poesia de Moçambique (1995)

Web links

• Jornal de Poesia Information about Luís Carlos Patraquim (accessed on June 26, 2008, 11:54 am)