Aguinaldo Fonseca

Aguinaldo Fonseca (22 September 1922; Mindelo, Cape Verde[1] – 24 January 2014; Lisbon, Portugal) was a Cape Verdean poet.[2]

For other uses, see Fonseca (disambiguation).
Aguinaldo Fonseca
Born(1922-09-22)22 September 1922
Mindelo, Cape Verde
Died24 January 2014(2014-01-24) (aged 91)
Lisbon, Portugal
Occupationpoet
NationalityCape Verdean

Biography

Aguinaldo Fonseca was born in Mindelo, capital of the island of São Vicente on 22 September 1922.

Aguinaldo Fonseca moved to Lisbon in 1945 and published several poems in different Portuguese journals.

He first collaborated on the journal Claridade in 1945[3] and later on the seminary Mundo Literário (World of Literature) (1946-1948).[4]

He was later known as "the forgotten poet", even they were published in the "Linha do Horizonte" collection in 1951, seven years later, reunited in a selection of poems in a cultural supplement "Notícias de Cabo Verde", he portrayed Michel Laban, an Algerian born French investigator who studied in Lusophony literature, that author died in Paris in December 2008.

His poems redrawn in civic ardor and firmly exposed to social injustice as cited in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia in 1979 when it translated into Russian.

One of his poem can be found on the CD Poesia de Cabo Verde e Sete Poemas de Sebastião da Gama (2007) by Afonso Dias.[5]

Poems
  • Mãe negra
  • Canção dos rapazes da ilha

References
  1. Ferreira (1965), p. 158
  2. "Morreu Aguinaldo Brito Fonseca" (in Portuguese). Expresso. 24 January 2014. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
  3. Alves das Neves (1963), p. 18
  4. Roldão, Helena (27 January 2014). "Ficha histórica: Mundo literário : semanário de crítica e informação literária, científica e artística (1946-1948)" [Historic File: World of Literature: Critic Seminary and Literary, Scientific and Artistic Information, 1946-48] (PDF) (in Portuguese). Hemeroteca Municipal de Lisboa. Archived (PDF) from the original on 19 February 2014. Retrieved 3 November 2014.
  5. "Objectos do quotidiano de Cabo Verde mostram-se em Lisboa na "Casa Fernando Pessoa"". A Semana. 25 June 2007. Archived from the original on 2016-02-03. Retrieved 2016-02-16.

Further reading
  • João Alves das Neves Poetas e Contistas africanos de expressão portuguêsa. Cabo verde-Guiné-São Tomé e Principe-Angola-Moçambique, Brasiliense, São Paulo, 1963, p. 18
  • Ferreira, Manuel No reino de Caliban : antologia panorâmica da poesia africana de expressão portuguesa, vol. 1. Cabo Verde e Guiné-Bissau, Seara Nova, Lisbonne, 1975, p. 158
  • Janheinz Jahn, Ulla Schild and Almut Nordmann Seiler. Who's who in African literature: biographies, works, commentaries. — 1972.
  • Veiga, Manuel Insularité et littérature aux îles du Cap-Vert (translated into Portuguese by Elisa Silva Andrade), Karthala, Paris, 1997, p. 266 ISBN 2-86537-797-0


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