Filomena Embaló

Filomena Araújo Embaló (born 1956) is an Angolan-born Bissau-Guinean writer. She is the first woman in Guinea-Bissau to have published a novel.

Biography Filomena Embaló was born in Luanda, Angola, in 1956 to parents from Cape Verde. She moved to Guinea-Bissau as a teenager, in 1975, and became naturalized there. Embaló then studied economics at the University of Reims in France.

The 1998–1999 civil war in Guinea-Bissau sent Embaló into an identity crisis, The first novel to be published by a Bissau-Guinean woman, Tiara deals with the fallout of colonialism in a fictionalized African country.

She has also written magazine and journal articles about Bissau-Guinean economics and literature.

Embaló is an avid campaigner for women's rights in Guinea-Bissau. at NGOs

Works

1999: Tiara (novel) 2005: Carta aberta (stories) 2008: Coração cativo (poetry)