International Colloquium-Course on Literatures from Cape-Verde, Guinea-Bissau and São Tomé
June 19th and 20th, 2009
Dina Salústio is a Cape-Verdean writer and poet born in Santo Antão, Cape Verde, by the name of Bernardina Oliveira. In 1994 she published a collection of 35 short-stories, Mornas Eram as Noites, which granted her the Cape Verde Children’s Literature Award. A Louca de Serrano marked her debut in novels, in 1988.
Dina Salústio was one of the founders of the Cape-Verde writers Association and has several literary Works published. Along her activity as a writer, she was teacher, social worker and journalist in Cape Verde, as well as in Portugal and Angola. She also coordinated a radio show dedicated to education issues and was radio producer. She also worked for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cape Verde.
Inocência Mata. PhD. in Humanities, in the fields of African Literatures of Portuguese Language, at the School of Humanities, University of Lisbon, where she lectures Compared Post-colonial Literatures, Portuguese Language and Literary Languages and Multiculturalism and Intercultural Dynamics. As researcher on African Literatures of Portuguese Language, namely Angolan and São–Tomean literatures, she has held conferences and participated in colloquiums and congresses in Portugal, where she lives, France, Germany, Spain, England, Poland, Angola, Guinea-Bissau, São Tomé and Principe, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Brazil, United States, among others.
Has disperse collaboration in journals of the field and is author of the essay books Pelos Trilhos da Literatura Africana em Língua Portuguesa (1992), Emergência e Existência de uma Literatura: o caso santomense (1993), Dialogo com as Ilhas: Cultura e Literatura de São Tomé e Príncipe (1998), Literatura Angolana: silêncios e falas de uma voz inquieta (2001) and organized, with Laura Padilha, A Mulher em África: Vozes de uma margem sempre presente (2005) and Antologia de Poesia de Alda do Espírito Santo (2006).
Joana Passos is researcher at the Centre for Humanistic Studies, University of Minho, Braga. Holds a Doctoral Degree at Utrecht University, Holland, since 2003. Among her published works we call attention to the book Schizophrenic Conditions, Difficult Transitions (2007), and some articles, such as: Lusophone Literatures: Tales from Cape Verde and Mozambican Memories of the Apocalipse (2008) and Talk Back and Think Beyond: The Reception of African Literatures in Portugal and the Self-definition of Post-colonial Nations through Literature – Afroeurope@ns Cultures and Identities (2008). She is presently developing her post-doctoral project: Indo-Portuguese Literature of the 19th and 20th century: Colonial discourses, Post-Colonial Perspectives, Luso-Indian Identities.
Joaquim Arena was born in São Vicente, Cape Verde, son of Portuguese father and Cape-Verdean mother. At the age of six, the family settled in Lisbon and here he studied Law and Journalism. During the 80’s he began a career as musician and later on as journalist. At the end of the 90’s returned to Cape-Verde, where he established the newspaper O Cidadão, in São Vicente. Later on, he was invited to be cultural advisor of the local Alliance Française, while working as a lawyer. In 2000, publishes a novel, Um Farol no Deserto, and in 2006, returns to Lisbon, where his novel, A Verdade de Chindo Luz, is published by Oficina do Livro. The book has good reviews from critics that consider it the first written novel on African communities residing in the Portuguese Capital. In 2008, A Verdade de Chindo Luz is published in Spain. Editions in Brazil and Canada are foreseen in 2009.
Presently he lives in Lisbon and works as a journalist.
Livia Apa was born in Naples in 1963, Holds a Doctoral Degree at the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon, in the field of African literatures, lectures at Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”. Works in the field of cultural studies in the Lusophone field, namely on the relation between war/literature, cultural memory and literary biographies. Translated into Italian, among others, writers such as Mia Couto, Ruy Duarte de Carvalho, Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos and Ana Luísa Amaral.
Odete Semedo holds a degree in Modern Languages and Literatures at the School of Social and Human Sciences, Universidade Nova of Lisbon.
Was Minister of Education and Health of Guinea-Bissau and President of the National Comitee for UNESCO – Bissau. Is founder of the journal "Revista de Letras, Artes e Cultura Tcholona". Of her literary works, we call attention to the book of poems, o Ser e o Amar, in Bissau (1996), and No fundo do canto (2003). Presently is researcher, at the Guinean capital, at the National Institute for Studies and Research, in the fields of Education and Training, and develops Doctoral Degree research at PUC – Minas, in Brazil.
Pires Laranjeira is Associate Professor, at the University of Coimbra, School of Arts and Humanities, where he is responsible for the chair of African Literatures of Portuguese Language and where he lectured the chair Brazilian Literature. Of his academic activity, we call attention to directing the Masters and Post-Graduate Programme on Literatures and Cultures of Africa and Diaspora at the same university, lecturing at the Masters Programme in Intercultural Relations at Universidade Aberta (Porto), and collaborating with universities such as Salamanca and Macau. His present research interests include history, society and politics in African Literatures and also Oriental and Middle Eastern cultures.
Among his published works, we call attention to Literatura calibanesca (1987); A negritude africana de língua portuguesa (1995); Literaturas africanas de expressão portuguesa (1995); “Le monde lusophone (chapitre V): la littérature coloniale portugaise”, in Jean Sévry (ed.), Regards sur les littératures coloniales. Afrique anglophone et lusophone, tomo III (1999); Estudos afro-literários (2005, 2nd ed.).
Silvio Renato Jorge holds a Doctoral Degree in Humanities (Vernacular Languages) at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1999), developed a post-doctoral traineeship at the Post-Graduate Programme in Compared Literatures of Portuguese Language at USP. Presently is Associate Professor at the Federal Fluminense University, belongs to editorial board of several journals of the field, such as Gragoatá and Diadorim. Is vice-coordinator of the Post-Graduate Programme in Humanities at UFFÉ. Grantee of productivity in research at CNPq. At the moment, is undertaking his Post-Doctoral traineeship at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, under supervision of António de Sousa Ribeiro and Maria Irene Ramalho. Of his published works, we call attention to the book Sobre Mulheres e Estrangeiros: alguns romances de Olga Gonçalves (2009), organizing the volume Pensando África: ensaios. (with Carmem Lúcia Tindó Ribeiro Secco and Maria Teresa Salgado – in the print), and the essays Entre guerras e narrativas: percursos da escrita de Paulina Chiziane e Lília Momplé (2008) and Sobre exílio e dor: o contratado e a cena colonial (2006).
Simone Caputo Gomes is Professor of African Literatures of Portuguese Language at the University of São Paulo (USP). Holds a Doctoral Degree in Humanities (Literatures of Portuguese Language) at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica of Rio de Janeiro (1988), with a Masters in Humanities at the same university (1979) and a Degree in Humanities at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1975). Post-Doctoral Degrees at the University of Lisbon and Coimbra, in African Literatures of Portuguese Language, namely Cape-Verdean Literature, and Contemporary Portuguese Poetry. Develops research in the fields of: Compared Studies of Portuguese Language Literatures; African Studies; Cape-Verdean Culture and Literature; Feminine Author Writings; Immaterial Heritage of Cape-Verde and Oral Creole Traditions. On the 4th of July of 2007 was distinguished with the Ordem do Vulcão Medal, highest distinction granted by the President of the Republic of Cape-Verde. Is a FAPESP and CNPq grantee. He also Works in the field of Education, focusing on Advisory for Portuguese Language and Literature/Composition carried out for INEP/Ministry of Education.
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