Jorge Barbosa

Jorge Vera-Cruz Barbosa was born on 22 May 1902 in Praia, on the island of Santiago. He joined the customs service at São Vicente at the age of eighteen and spent his whole career there, transferred from island to island, and retired on Sal in 1967 with the rank of director. In 1936, with Baltasar Lopes and Manuel Lopes, he founded the review Claridade, which turned the letters of the islands away from the Portuguese model, and over twenty years he produced three collections in which drought and departure recur. He left the islands only in September 1970, ill with a heart condition, and died near Lisbon on 6 January 1971.

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• PoetryArquipélagoJorge Barbosa · 1935not translated into EnglishLiterature