Manuel Lopes | |
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| Born | Manuel António de Sousa Lopes December 23, 1907 |
| Died | 25 January 2005 (aged 97) Lisbon, Portugal |
| Occupation(s) | novelist, poet, essayist |
Manuel António de Sousa Lopes (December 23, 1907 – January 25, 2005) was a Cape Verdean novelist, poet and essayist. With Baltasar Lopes da Silva and Jorge Barbosa he was a founder of the journal Claridade, which contributed to the rise of Cape Verdean literature.[1] Manuel Lopes wrote in Portuguese, using expressions typical for Cape Verdean Portuguese and Cape Verdean Creole. He was one of those responsible for describing world calamities of the droughts that caused several deaths in São Vicente and Santo Antão.