Baltasar Lopes da Silva | |
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 Baltasar Lopes da Silva on a 500 Capeverdean escudo note issued between 1992 and 2000 | |
| Born | 23 April 1907 |
| Died | 28 May 1989 (aged 82) Lisbon, Portugal |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | African philosophy; Independence Movement |
Main interests | Ethics, Humanity, Justice, Love, Politics, philosophy |
Baltasar Lopes da Silva (23 April 1907 – 8 May 1989[1]) was a writer, poet and linguist from Cape Verde, who wrote in both Portuguese and Cape Verdean Creole. With Manuel Lopes and Jorge Barbosa, he was the founder of Claridade. In 1947 he published Chiquinho, considered the greatest Cape Verdean novel[2] and O dialecto crioulo de Cabo Verde which describes different dialects of creoles of Cape Verde. He sometimes wrote under the pseudonym Osvaldo Alcântara.
Ressaca, his work of poems can be found on the CD Poesia de Cabo Verde e Sete Poemas de Sebastião da Gama by Afonso Dias.[3]
- ^ Sousa, Lima (25 March 2007). "O centenário da Claridade em São Vicente" [The 100th Anniversary of Claridade in São Vicente]. A Semana. Archived from the original on 3 February 2016. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
- ^ ""Chiquinho" é "obra fundadora da literatura cabo-verdiana" ["Chiquinho" is "founding work of the Cape Verdean literature"]. Diário de Noticias. 22 April 2010.
- ^ "Objectos do quotidiano de Cabo Verde mostram-se em Lisboa na "Casa Fernando Pessoa". A Semana. 25 June 2007. Archived from the original on 3 February 2016. Retrieved 26 January 2016.