José Craveirinha

José Craveirinha was born on 28 May 1922 in Lourenço Marques, now Maputo, to a father from the Algarve and a Ronga mother. A journalist, he wrote for Brado Africano, Notícias and other newspapers in the country. A member of a Frelimo cell, he was imprisoned by the Portuguese political police from 1965 to 1969. In 1991 he was the first African author to receive the Camões Prize, the highest distinction in the Portuguese language, and he is regarded as the greatest poet of Mozambique. He died in Johannesburg on 6 February 2003.

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• PoetryKaringana ua karinganaJosé Craveirinha · 1974not translated into EnglishLiterature