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Writer of the month: Noémia de Sousa
12:21 CAT | 1 July 2019
Writer of the month: Noémia de Sousa
Date and Time: Monday, July 8 2019 at 17h00
Entrance: Free
Address: Camões - Centro Cultural Português em Maputo, Av. Julius Nyerere no. 720, Maputo
About the event
As part of the Writer of the Month initiative, the Camões - Portuguese Cultural Center in Maputo dedicates the month of July to the Mozambican writer Noémia de Sousa.
With the objective of deepening the knowledge of the work of the writer, a session entitled "If you want to meet me: Noémia de Sousa by Calane da Silva" will be held on July 8, at 5:00 p.m.
During this meeting, Calane da Silva proposes a presentation of the book that is being prepared on the writer Noémia de Sousa, (re) reading some of the author's works and an exchange of impressions with the public present.
Every month a well-known writer has been chosen and, in partnership with institutions of higher education, associations and theater groups, a selection of texts by the author is carried out and a public presentation of a session that also allows exploring the possibility of saying the literary text.
About Noémia de Sousa
Noémia de Sousa was born in 1926 in Catembe and died in Cascais (Portugal) in 2002. Noémia's father came from a Portuguese-Afro-Goan family from the Island of Mozambique and her mother was a native of Bela Vista, the daughter of a Ronga chief , Belenguana. She is the author of a dense poetic work that represents the resistance of the African woman and the struggle of the people for their freedom. The writing talent began to be practiced making wallpapers with the brothers and, very soon, Noémia was invited to collaborate for the newspaper of Mocidade Portuguesa.
Noémia de Sousa has always favored the publication of her poems in the press, because she felt it would have more impact on young people. It was only too late that he yielded to his invitation to publish his only book, Sangue Negro (2001), which contains 46 poems, written between 1948 and 1951. This was a very intense period in which Noémia lived close by with other tutelary figures of the arts and letters from Mozambique: Ruy Guerra, Ricardo Rangel, João Mendes, José Craveirinha, Virgílio de Lemos, among many others. This was how the texts appeared in the Mozambican press (O Brado Africano, Itinerário, Msaho), Angolan (Message) and, later, Portuguese (Notícia de Bloqueio, Mozambique 58, Vértice).
After creating the Negritude movement with José Craveirinha, in 1951 Noémia fled to Portugal to escape PIDE. In Lisbon, she encountered a "generation of utopia," which sought to promote the independence of African countries. Noémia worked side by side with the African nationalists of today: Amílcar Cabral, Mário de Andrade, Marcelino dos Santos, Lúcio Lara, Agostinho Neto, Francisco José Tenreiro. Having been persecuted in Lisbon, many of these young people fled to France.
Noémia lived in Paris, working at the Moroccan Embassy until 1973, she returned to Portugal to work at Reuters agency. "As the voice of Negritude, Noémia's voice is not a gratuitous narcissistic exaltation of being black, but it is of being black as object of economic, cultural or racial subjection "(Francisco Noa). It is a poetry that "ends up integrating ideological elements that allowed it to function simultaneously as an Aesthetic Manifesto and Political Manifesto" (Fatima Mendonça). By its influence in the generations of poets that followed, Noémia de Sousa is considered "Mother of the Mozambican poets".
About Calane da Silva
Calane da Silva was born in the city of Lourenço Marques (now Maputo) on October 20, 1945. He was a professional journalist for 25 years, having headed the offices of the main national information agencies. He did his Masters and PhD from the Faculty of Arts at the University of Porto, Portugal. He is a lecturer at the Pedagogical University of Maputo. He is a founding member of the Association of Mozambican Writers, the Mozambican Association of Portuguese Language, the National Organization of Journalists, the current National Union of Journalists, the International Institute of the Portuguese Language (IILP) and the Chairman of the IILP Scientific Council .
He is also a member of the National Bioethics Commission and President of the Associative Rainbow Group, Phytotherapy Science and Spirituality. For many years he was Director of the Centro Cultural Brasil Moçambique, a position in the diplomatic forum. He has a vast bibliography of more than 17 books published among literary works (poetry, short stories, novels and children's literature), as well as works of academic forum between essays and research in the linguistic-literary area. He was awarded several literary prizes and some national and international awards.
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