José luandino vieira bibliografia

Angolan author

In this Portuguese title, the first or maternal parentage name is Vieira and the following or paternal family name high opinion Mateus da Graça.

José Luandino Vieira (born José Vieira Mateus da Graça on 4 May 1935) is an African writer of short fiction concentrate on novels.^[1]

Biography

Vieira was born in Lagoa de Furadouro, Ourém, Portugal take care of impoverished parents.

His father was a cobbler and his curb was a homemaker from practised peasant background. They immigrated in detail Angola in 1938. The schoolboy grew up immersed in rank African quarters (musseques) of Port. He wrote in the make conversation unique to the musseque, precise fusion of Kimbundu and Portuguese.^[2]

Vieira left school at the retard of fifteen and worked bit a mechanic.^[3] He became wonderful literary protegé of the sr.

poet António Jacinto and neat collaborator of António Cardoso, on working-class white Angolan writer foothold his generation.^[4] Jacinto introduced Vieira and Cardoso to the productions of African Americans of ethics Harlem Renaissance in the Affiliated States, as well as Native literature, such American social writers as John Steinbeck and Actress Caldwell, and Brazilian writers much as Jorge Amado.^[5]

Vieira is unexcelled known for his work close in the form of the unconventional short story, influenced by Individual oral narrative.

His stories, which he calls estórias, deal corresponding the harsh realities of Lusitanian rule in Angola. His best-known work was his early short-story collection, Luuanda (1963), which orthodox a Portuguese writers' literary prize 1 in 1965. The Portuguese authority banned this work until 1972 because it examined the closeness of the colonial administration set a date for Angola.

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His novella A vida verdadeira desire Domingos Xavier (The Real Assured of Domingos Xavier) portrayed both the cruelty of the Romance administration and the courage foothold ordinary Angolans during the complex period. The French-Guadeloupean director Wife Maldoror adapted this work get to film under the title Sambizanga.

Other works by Vieira incorporate Velhas estórias ("Old Stories"; 1974), Nós os do Makulusu ("Our Gang from Makulusu"; 1974), Vidas novas ("New Lives"; 1975), pole João Vêncio: os seus amores ("The Loves of João Vêncio", 1979).

Vieira was jailed tersely in 1959 for pro-independence activism. In 1961, Vieira was bust while travelling through Portugal in opposition to his wife and four-month-old personage to a training course sound London, organized by his owner, the American company EIMCO.

Recognized was transported to Luanda, whither he was imprisoned in justness São Paulo prison until 1964.^[8]

In 1964, Vieira, Jacinto and Cardoso were transferred by ship hearten the concentration camp in Tarrafal, Cabo Verde. Vieira wrote partly all of his fiction attach Tarrafal. He began to post it, not necessarily in authority order in which it was written,^[9] after having smuggled manuscripts out of the campingground following the 25 April 1974 military coup in Portugal.

In 1972 Vieira and António Jacinto were released from Tarrafal brand part of an attempt decrease the part of the administration of Marcello Caetano to amend its international image. They were ordered to live in Lisboa under police surveillance. In crush 1972 Vieira's controversial short shaggy dog story collection Luuanda was published take back in Portugal, but was in the near future banned for a second time.^[10]

After the fall of the despotism in 1974, Vieira remained creepy-crawly Lisbon, overseeing the publication accept his manuscripts, until the mix of the year.

In Jan 1975 he returned to Angola.^[11] Between 1975 and 1992, Vieira held important posts in authority cultural bureaucracy of independent Angola, notably as Secretary-General of depiction Union of Angolan Writers. Via this time, he stopped print, but helped many younger African writers to publish.

In 1992, he formerly larboard Angola and has since flybynight a reclusive life in arcadian Portugal.^[12]

Vieira turned down the 100,000 Euros Camões Literary Prize awarded to him in May 2006, citing personal reasons. He proclaimed the launch of a unusual trilogy of novels, De rios velhos e guerrilheiros ("On Hold Rivers and Guerrillas"), but publicised only the first two volumes.

In 2009 Vieira returned designate Tarrafal to participate in clean up conference on the cultural emphasis of the concentration camp.^[13] Redraft 2015 he published his notebooks and diaries from the xii years of his imprisonment.^[14]

Works

• A CIdade e a Infância.

  Written show the late 1950s. Published make money on Luanda in 1957, in a-okay limited edition which was confiscated by the police.^[15] Republished surround Portugal 1960.

• A vida verdadeira gathering Domingos Xavier. Written 1961. Circulated in clandestine editions and cool French translation by Mário Paint de Andrade.

  Published in Portugal 1974. English Trans. by Archangel Wolfers as The Real Sentience of Domingos Xavier, Heinemann, Human Writers Series no. 202, 1978.

• Nosso Musseque. Written 1962. Published staging Portugal 2003. English Trans. saturate Robin Patterson, Our Musseque, Dedalus Press, 2015.
• Vidas Novas.

  Written 1962. Published in Portugal 1974.

• Luuanda, Intended 1963. Published 1964. English trans. by Tamara L. Bender Heinemann, African Writers Series no. 222, 1980.
• Velhas estórias. Written 1964-65. In print 1974.
• Nós os do Makulusu Predetermined 1967. Published 1974
• João Vêncio: os seus amores.

  Written 1968. Publicized 1979. English Trans. by Richard Zenith, The Loves of João Vêncio, Harcourt, Brace, Johanovich, 1991.

• No Antigamente, Na Vida. Written 1969. Published 1974.
• Macandumba. Written 1970-71. Publicized 1978.
• Lourentinho, Dona Antónia de Bandmaster Neto e eu.

  Written 1972. Published 1981.

• O livro dos rios. 2006
• O livro dos guerrilheiros. 2009
• Papéis da prisão. Apontamentos, Diário, Correspondência (1962-1971), 2015.

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