Luísa Coelho

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Maria Luísa de Maia Júlio Teixeira Coelho (* 1954 in Luso , Angola ) is a Portuguese linguist and writer.

The linguist and cultural worker is a university professor and author of a number of textbooks for teaching Portuguese as a foreign language, as well as a large number of short stories, novels, children's books and collections of short stories.

Life

Coelho was born in what was then the Portuguese colony of Angola and went to Portugal with her family in the course of Angola's independence in 1974/1975.

She completed her studies at the University of Lisbon ( German , languages ​​and literary studies) with a degree in German Philology, followed by a doctoral thesis ( Ph.D. ) on multimedia educational communication in 1994 at the University of Utrecht and in 2002 an MA in political philosophy at the Catholic University University of Lisbon .

From 1983 to 2015 she was a lecturer in Portuguese as a foreign language at the University of Lisbon, and since 1986 she has also worked for the Portuguese cultural institute Instituto Camões . She also taught Portuguese and Portuguese literature for five years at the University of Brasilia , then at the University of Agostinho Neto in Luanda and at other universities in Austria, France and the Netherlands.

In 2010 she moved to Berlin and has since headed the cultural center of the Instituto Camões there, where she also teaches Portuguese at the Humboldt University and the Free University . There she supports and supervises cultural projects for German-Portuguese encounters. A first collection of texts on the topic was published in 2015, a German edition is being planned (as of 2017).

Parallel to her diverse work as a linguist, she also devoted herself to writing and wrote a large number of novels, short stories, short stories, poetry and children's and youth literature, which have been published in Portugal, Brazil, the USA and Belgium since 1992.

Works (selection)

  • 1992: O canto de amor das baleias (short stories, Livraria Minerva, Coimbra)
  • 2000: Cavalgar um Raio de Luz (Roman, Contemporânea Editora, Porto)
  • 2003: Monique (French-Portuguese language novel, Editora Thesaurus, Brasilia, 2004 in Lisbon, 2007 in New York, 2007 in Rio de Janeiro)
  • 2004: Os Espaços do Desejo ( short stories, Editora Thesaurus, Brasília)
  • 2005: Intimidades - Antologia de Contos eróticos femininos portugueses e brasileiros (Collection of erotic fairy tales, Editora Dom Quixote, Lisbon and Editora Record, Rio de Janeiro)
  • 2008: O Porquinho Fortalhaças (children's book, Editora Contra Margem, Lisbon)
  • 2008: Costaud, Le Petit Cochon (bilingual French-Portuguese children's book, Editora Contra Margem, Lisbon)
  • 2008: Kunuar (poetry, Mazza Editora, Brasília, 2009 in Lisbon, 2016 in New York)
  • 2008: Marcela eo Segredo das Ilhas Perdidas (children's and youth novel, Editora Contra Margem, Lisbon)
  • 2009: Nkuma e Chem-Chem (children's fairy tale, Editora Contra Margem, Lisbon and Editora Chá de Caxinde, Luanda)
  • 2009: Petro, bom de bola (children's fairy tale, Editora RJH, Belo Horizonte)

She also put together a number of collections and wrote the accompanying texts.

She is also the author of at least a dozen textbooks.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Biographical information on Luísa Coelho in her entry in the German National Library , accessed on 23 August 2018
  2. ↑ Luísa Coelho's biography at WOOK , the online trade of the publishing house Porto Editora, accessed on 23 August 2018
  3. ↑ a b Biography of Luísa Coelho ( Memento of the original from July 9, 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. in an archive at the University of Minho , accessed August 23, 2018 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ceh.ilch.uminho.pt
  4. ^ Pontes por construir - Portugal e Alemanha, Editora Bairro dos Livros, Porto 2015, ISBN 978-989-97626-5-7
  5. ↑ Biographical information on Luísa Coelho in the collection of stories `` Contos da Emigração - Homens Que Sofrem de Sonhos '', Oxalá Editora , Dortmund 2018 ( ISBN 978-3-946277-11-8 ), p. 124f
personal data
SURNAME Coelho, Luísa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Coelho, Maria Luisa de Maia Julio Teixeira (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese linguist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Luso , Angola