Corsino Fortes

Corsino António Fortes was born on 14 February 1933 in Mindelo, on the island of São Vicente. He studied law in Lisbon, where he lived at the Casa dos Estudantes do Império (the Empire Students' House), and graduated in 1966. A magistrate in Angola, he asked in April 1975 to be relieved of his duties. A militant of the independence party in the months before independence, he was his country's first ambassador to Portugal, then chaired the Cape Verdean writers' association from 2003 to 2006. He died in July 2015.

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• PoetryPão & FonemaCorsino Fortes · 1974Literature