Rui Nogar

Francisco Rui Moniz Barreto Nogar , known as Rui Nogar (born February 2, 1935 in Lourenço Marques , Mozambique , † March 11, 1993 in Lisbon ) was a Mozambican writer .

biography

Rui Nogar was of Indian origin on the part of his father and Portuguese on the part of his mother . After completing his school education, he first worked in the advertising industry. Nogar was strongly influenced by Marxism and, with his full beard, had an outward resemblance to Fidel Castro . Because of his political engagement against the fascist Salazar regime , he was arrested by the Portuguese secret police PIDE in 1965 on suspicion of membership in FRELIMO . After his release in 1968, he continued to campaign against the Portuguese colonial power . After Mozambique gained independence from Portugal in 1975, he worked for the government and was appointed Minister of Culture . For a while he was a member of the National Assembly and director of the Museum of the Revolution in Maputo. In addition, Nogar was the first general secretary of the Associação dos Escritores Moçambicanos . Most recently he was cultural attaché at the Mozambican embassy in Lisbon.

reception

Rui Nogar was primarily a poet. Although he never published his own book, his poems appeared in Mozambican magazines such as O Brado Africano , Caliban, and Portuguese magazines such as África and Notícias do bloqueiro . In 1982 a collection of his captive texts was published under the title Silêncio Escancarado .

Works (selection)

• Silêncio Escancarado . Edições 70, Lisbon 1982 (Autores moçambicanos; 7).

See also

• Mozambican literature

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Article about Rui Nogar  ( 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. on Poets of Mozambique (March 7, 2009 1:00 p.m.)  

Web links

• Biography on Infopedia.pt