Rui de Noronha

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António Rui de Noronha (born October 28, 1909 in Lourenço Marques , Mozambique ; † December 25, 1943 there ) was a Mozambican poet who is regarded as a pioneer of modern Mozambican poetry.

biography

Noronha studied in Maputo and became a civil servant in the administration of ports and railways ( Serviço de Portos e Caminho de Ferro ). At the age of only 17 he began a journalistic career and published in the magazine O Brado Africano . In this first creative period only three stories were created. From 1932 he worked in a leading position for the Brado Africano . He wrote political commentaries and chronicles. This was problematic because as a mestizo - his father was Indian, his mother African - he was constantly confronted with racism. Most of his texts were written between 1932 and 1935. That year his health deteriorated. Added to this were the changes in the political climate caused by the Estado Novo , which made its activities more and more difficult. The author died in 1943 at the age of only 34.

Noronha chose the sonnet form for most of his poems . He was based on the French Parnassian . This form of poetry was still quite popular in Portugal and the overseas provinces, despite criticism from many “modern” authors. In his poems he addressed the connection to his home country Mozambique. In doing so, he also resorted to African traditions, which is why many literary scholars consider him the first actually Mozambican poet.

During Noronha's lifetime he had never published any of his literary texts. It was only his French teacher Domingos Reis Costa who collected his poems and published sixty of them in 1946 under the title Sonetos (German: Sonnets). His complete works were published in 2006 under the title Os meus versos ( Eng . My Verses).

plant

  • Sonetos , Editora Minerva Central, 1946 (edited posthumously by Dr. Domingos Reis Costa).
  • Os Meus Versos , Texto Editores, 2006 (edited and commented by Fátima Mendonça)
  • Ao mata-bicho (texts that were first published in the journal O Brado Africano ). Edited by António Sopa, Calane da Silva and Olga Iglésias Neves. Maputo, Texto Editores, 2007.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography on Macua.blogs.com (accessed December 31, 2009)
  2. ↑ Biography on page no longer available , search in web archives: Poetsofmozambique.com (accessed December 31, 2009)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.poetsofmozambique.com
personal data
SURNAME Noronha, Rui de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Noronha, António Rui de; Aguilar, Carranquinha de (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mozambican poet, writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Maputo , Mozambique
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 1943
Place of death Maputo , Mozambique