Mozambique: Paratus Santa Maria Fusing Trip 2025
Tribute to Luís Carlos Patraquim and Sebastião Alba
11:46 CAT | 5 March 2019
Tribute to Luís Carlos Patraquim and Sebastião Alba
Date and Time: Tuesday, March 26 2019 at 18h00
Entrance: Free
Address: Fundação Fernando Leite Couto, Av. Kim Il Sung no. 961, Maputo
About Luís Carlos Patraquim
Luís Carlos Patraquim nasceu em Maputo, Moçambique, em 1953. Between 1973 and 1975, he was a political refugee in Sweden.
Upon his return to Mozambique, he founded the Mozambican Information Agency (AIM) with other writers, worked at the National Cinema Institute (INC) in Mozambique, edited the film journal "Kuxa Kanema" and collaborated in the Mozambican press.
In 1986, he left Mozambique and settled in Portugal, where he continued his work as a writer and editorial collaborator.
In his vast work published in prose, poetry and theater, he draws on themes of the past and the present, depicting love, woman, sea and dream. In 1995, in Mozambique, he won the "National Prize of Poetry".
About Sebastião Alba
Sebastião Alba (born 11 March 1940 – died 14 October 2000) was a Portuguese poet, born in Braga who lived a long period of his life in former Portuguese colony Mozambique. He became a journalist in Mozambique and published three books of poetry before his decline caused by alcoholism.
The last two decades of his life, he became a homeless alcoholic wandering and living in the streets of Braga. During this period he wrote poems and texts on scrap papers, napkins and often giving them to friends and family. These writings were posthumously compiled in a book called "Albas" edited in 2003. He died in 2000 as he was hit by a car.
SHOW COMMENTS
Related Events
Leave a Reply
Be the First to Comment!
You must be logged in to post a comment.
You must be logged in to post a comment.