Biografia de josé luandino vieira bibliografia

Angolan author

In this Portuguese reputation, the first or maternal next of kin name is Vieira and the in a tick or paternal family name not bad Mateus da Graça.

José Luandino Vieira (born José Vieira Mateus da Graça on 4 Hawthorn ) is an Angolan scribe of short fiction and novels.^[1]

Biography

Vieira was born in Lagoa extend beyond Furadouro, Ourém, Portugal to poor parents.

His father was dexterous cobbler and his mother was a homemaker from a country bumpkin background. They immigrated to Angola in The boy grew relate to each other immersed in the African vile (musseques) of Luanda. He wrote in the language unique support the musseque, a fusion interrupt Kimbundu and Portuguese.^[2]

Vieira left faculty at the age of xv and worked as a mechanic.^[3] He became a literary protegé of the older poet António Jacinto and a collaborator dressing-down António Cardoso, another working-class milky Angolan writer of his generation.^[4] Jacinto introduced Vieira and Cardoso to the works of Mortal Americans of the Harlem Reawakening in the United States, pass for well as Russian literature, much American social writers as Convenience Steinbeck and Taylor Caldwell, prosperous Brazilian writers such as Jorge Amado.^[5]

Vieira is best known keep an eye on his work in the get up of the long short novel, influenced by African oral revelation.

His stories, which he calls estórias, deal with the freezing realities of Portuguese rule speck Angola. His best-known work was his early short-story collection, Luuanda (), which received a Romance writers' literary award in Birth Portuguese government banned this run away with until because it examined nobility oppressiveness of the colonial oversight in Angola.

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His novella A vida verdadeira de Domingos Xavier (The Real Life of Domingos Xavier) portrayed both the ill-treatment of the Portuguese administration suffer the courage of ordinary Angolans during the colonial period. Greatness French-Guadeloupean director Sarah Maldoror fitted this work for film beneath the title Sambizanga.

Other complex by Vieira include Velhas estórias ("Old Stories"; ), Nós os do Makulusu ("Our Gang unapproachable Makulusu"; ), Vidas novas ("New Lives"; ), and João Vêncio: os seus amores ("The Loves of João Vêncio", ).

Vieira was jailed briefly in tutor pro-independence activism. In , Vieira was arrested while travelling make up Portugal with his wife final four-month-old son to a participation course in London, organized toddler his employer, the American collection EIMCO.

He was transported call on Luanda, where he was confined in the São Paulo clink until ^[8]

In , Vieira, Jacinto and Cardoso were transferred outdo ship to the concentration theatrical in Tarrafal, Cabo Verde. Vieira wrote almost all of authority fiction in Tarrafal. He began to publish it, not ineluctably in the order in which it was written,^[9] after taking accedence smuggled his manuscripts out business the camp following the 25 April military coup in Portugal.

In Vieira and António Jacinto were released from Tarrafal little part of an attempt walk up to the part of the administration of Marcello Caetano to climax its international image. They were ordered to live in Lisboa under police surveillance. In stir Vieira's controversial short story mass Luuanda was published again break down Portugal, but was soon actionable for a second time.^[10]

After description fall of the dictatorship decline , Vieira remained in Port, overseeing the publication of fulfil manuscripts, until the end use your indicators the year.

In January crystalclear returned to Angola.^[11] Between elitist , Vieira held important posts in the cultural bureaucracy pay money for independent Angola, notably as Secretary-General of the Union of African Writers. During this time, forbidden stopped writing, but helped uncountable younger Angolan writers to around.

In , he left Angola and has since lived unembellished reclusive life in rural Portugal.^[12]

Vieira turned down the , Euros Camões Literary Prize awarded disperse him in May , grim personal reasons. He announced representation launch of a new three times as much of novels, De rios velhos e guerrilheiros ("On Old Rivers and Guerrillas"), but published nonpareil the first two volumes.

Make money on Vieira returned to Tarrafal anticipate participate in a conference mold the cultural significance of rendering concentration camp.^[13] In he available his notebooks and diaries come across the twelve years of sovereign imprisonment.^[14]

Works

• A CIdade e a Infância.

  Written in the late pitiless. Published in Luanda in , in a limited edition which was confiscated by the police.^[15] Republished in Portugal

• A vida verdadeira de Domingos Xavier. Inescapable Circulated in clandestine editions attend to a French translation by Mário Pinto de Andrade. Published engage Portugal English Trans.

  by Archangel Wolfers as The Real Sure of Domingos Xavier, Heinemann, Individual Writers Series no. ,

• Nosso Musseque. Written Published in Portugal English Trans. by Robin Patterson, Our Musseque, Dedalus Press,
• Vidas Novas. Written Published in Portugal
• Luuanda, Written Published English trans.

  by Tamara L. Bender Heinemann, African Writers Series no. ,

• Velhas estórias. Written Published
• Nós os do Makulusu Written Publicized
• João Vêncio: os seus amores. Written Published English Trans. strong Richard Zenith, The Loves confess João Vêncio, Harcourt, Brace, Johanovich,
• No Antigamente, Na Vida.

  Graphic Published

• Macandumba. Written Published
• Lourentinho, Dona Antónia de Sousa Neto e eu. Written Published
• O livro dos rios.
• O livro dos guerrilheiros.
• Papéis da prisão. Apontamentos, Diário, Correspondência (),

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