Author · Cape Verde
Manuel Lopes
Died in 2005
Manuel Lopes, born in Mindelo in 1907 and died in Lisbon in 2005, grew up on the island of São Vicente, studied for a few years in Coimbra, then worked for the telegraph cable company that linked Mindelo to the world. In 1936 he founded, with Baltasar Lopes and Jorge Barbosa, the journal Claridade, which turned its back on the Portuguese model and laid the foundations of a Cape Verdean literature. He left the archipelago in 1944 for the Azores and then Portugal.
In the catalogue 1
- NovelChuva BrabaManuel Lopes · 1956not translated into EnglishLiterature