Author · Cape Verde
Orlanda Amarílis
Died in 2014
Orlanda Amarílis Lopes Rodrigues Fernandes was born on 8 October 1924 in Assomada, on the island of Santiago, into a family of scholars: her father had published the first dictionary of Cape Verdean Creole. She went to school in Mindelo, at the Gil Eanes lyceum, and gave her first texts to the review Certeza in 1944. Married in 1945 to a Portuguese writer, she lived for six years in Goa, where she took her teaching diploma, then settled in Portugal. She published three story collections, translated in several countries, and died on 1 February 2014.
In the catalogue 1
- Short storiesCais-do-Sodré té SalamansaOrlanda Amarílis · 1974not translated into EnglishLiterature