Sónia Sultuane

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Sónia Abdul Jafar Sultuane , Sónia Sultuane for short (born March 4, 1971 in Lourenço Marques , Portuguese East Africa ) is a Mozambican poet and visual artist.

Life

youth

Sónia Sultuane was born on March 4, 1971 in the capital of Portuguese East Africa Lourenço Marques . At an early age, she and her family moved to the north of Mozambique, to Nacala , where her father, who worked for the colonial railway CFM , had been transferred. Later, after Mozambique gained independence, she moved back to the capital, Maputo .

Artistic work

At the age of 13 Sultuane began to work as an artist. She started writing early and gradually published her poems. In 2001 her first volume of poetry, Sonhos , was published, followed by Imaginar o Poetizado in 2006 , No Colo da Lua in 2009 and A Lua de N'weti in 2014 . From 2005 Sultuane also began to create sculptures. Her subjects - in poems as well as in sculptures - are above all the position of women in Mozambican society and the accompanying circumstances, also in the area of ​​tension of a multi-religious community. She describes her works as transdisciplinary; many of her poems have plastic equivalents.

Between 2006 and 2008 she held the honorary position of secretary of the Mozambican Writers' Association. In 2009 the Associação Moçambicana dos Amigos de Macau invited the artist to show her work in the Portuguese School in Macau , this was her first solo exhibition. She also had exhibitions in Italy and South Africa . She was all her life with the Mozambican author Fernando Leite Couto († 2013, father of Mia Couto ) known.

Sultuane is a member of the Movimento de Arte Contemporânea de Moçambique (MUVART), the Núcleo de Arte and the Arterial Network Moçambique .

Private

Sultuane is divorced and has two children. She is of the Muslim faith. In addition to her artistic and literary work, Sultuane works as a communications and marketing officer in a law firm.

Works

  • 2001: Sonhos
  • 2006: Imaginar o Poetizado
  • 2009: No Colo da Lua
  • 2014: A Lua de N'weti

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Conta-me a tua infância: Sónia Sultuane tem 38 anos, é divorciada e tem um filho de 22. É poetisa e artista plástica. - Notícias - Sapo Notícias. In: noticias.sapo.mz. Retrieved September 28, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b Alfredo Lituri: Sónia Sultuane. In: Sapo Lifestyle. February 8, 2010, accessed September 28, 2016 (Portuguese).
  3. ↑ Moz'Art | Sónia Sultuane. In: mozart.spla.pro. Retrieved September 28, 2016 .
  4. ^ The Fundação Fernando Leite Couto formulated: Quote : "One of the most important female voices of the Mozambican poetry, she has kept with Fernando Couto a friendship relation that has lasted until the end of the life of the patron of this Foundation."
  5. ↑ Cristina Pereira: A viagem das palavras, entrevista a Sónia Sultuane, artista moçambicana | BUALA. In: Buala. March 27, 2011, Retrieved September 28, 2016 (Portuguese).
personal data
SURNAME Sultuane, Sonia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sultuane, Sónia Abdul Jafar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mozambican poet and plastic artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 4th 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Lourenço Marques , Portuguese East Africa