Manuela Margarido

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Maria Manuela Conceição Carvalho Margarido , mostly Manuela Margarido for short , (born September 11, 1925 on the Roça Olímpia, Ilha do Príncipe , Portuguese overseas colony of São Tomé and Príncipe ; † March 10, 2007 in Lisbon , Portugal ) was a São Tomé poet, Resistance fighter and diplomat.

Life

Youth and education

Manuela Carvalho was born on September 11, 1925 on the Olímpia estate ( Roça Olímpia ) on the island of Príncipe , which at that time belonged to the overseas provinces of the Portuguese colonial empire . Her father, David Guedes de Carvalho, was a Jewish Portuguese who came from Porto and worked as a judge on the island; her mother was a teacher of Angolan-Goa-Portuguese origin. Carvalho drove regularly to Portugal from an early age and was brought up in Portuguese accordingly. She first attended a Franciscan school in Valença in northern Portugal and later the Colégio do Sagrado Coração de Maria in Lisbon .

Anti-colonial engagement

She began to express her anti-colonial stance early on and publicly criticized the Batepá massacre on São Tomé and Príncipe in 1953, which subsequently led to a national consciousness among the island's population. Carvalho returned to the island for a short time, but had to return to continental Portugal to recover due to illness. She then stayed in Lisbon, where she married Alfredo Margarido, took the name Margarido and had children.

Margarido regularly visited the Casa dos Estudantes do Império , a student house founded by the Portuguese state for Luso-African students, which developed into a nucleus of the liberation movements in the African colonies of Portugal. There she met many like-minded people with whom she discussed the "liberation of Africa". She also organized roundtables with her husband Alfredo Margarido and Edmundo Bettencourt , Cândido da Costa Pinto and Manuel de Castro to exchange ideas about Portuguese colonialism. During this time she also wrote numerous anti-colonial poems, especially those with a strong homeland, for which she was particularly known.

Exile in Paris

With the beginning of the Portuguese colonial war in Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau, the Portuguese secret police PIDE reacted with arrests and bans. Margarido was arrested by the police and taken to PIDE prison in Caxias . After she was released, she went into exile in Paris, where she completed a degree in religious studies at the École Pratique des Hautes Études . She also studied humanities and film studies. Margarido also worked as a librarian and secretary at the Institute for Luso-Brazilian Studies at the Sorbonne . She also got involved in the theater and wrote for the Portuguese magazine " Estudos Ultramarinos ".

After 1974

With the Carnation Revolution in Portugal in 1974 and the foreseeable independence of the Portuguese colonies, Margarido returned to São Tomé and Príncipe and became an ambassador for the island nation. Among other things, she was ambassador for ten different countries in Europe and for various international organizations such as UNESCO and the FAO . She later supported the Portuguese President Mário Soares as an "adviser on African affairs".

Although she owned the Olímpia estate, on which she was born, and the associated land until the end, she could not use it and preferred to live in the Portuguese capital, Lisbon. There she belonged with Alda Espírito Santo , Caetano da Costa Alegre and Francisco José Tenreiro to the most famous voices of São Tomé and Príncipes in Portugal.

Margarido died on March 10, 2007 in the São Francisco Xavier Hospital in Lisbon at the age of 82. The funeral service took place in the Grand Lodge Grande Oriente Lusitano .

Works

Manuela Margarido only published one publication entitled Alto como o silêncio in 1957. She also published numerous poems in the 1960s and 1970s. Later, during her time in Paris, she also published specialist articles on São-Tomeic literature, namely Caetano da Costa Alegre and Francisco José Tenreiro .

literature

  • Inocência Mata: Manuela Margarido: uma poetisa lírica entre o cânone ea margem ; in: SCRIPTA, Belo Horizonte, v. 8, n. 15, pp. 240–252, 2nd half of 2004 ( available online as PDF )

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e f g Maria Manuela Margarido - a poesia eo grito de liberdade. In: Templo Cultural Delfos. August 2016, accessed on 21 October 2016 (Portuguese).
  2. Morreu a poetisa são-tomense Manuela Margarido. In: Público. March 11, 2007. Retrieved October 21, 2016 (Portuguese).