Gisela Casimiro

Gisela Casimiro (Guinea Bissau, 1984) is a Portuguese writer, activist and artist.

Biography Gisela Casimiro was born in Guinea-Bissau in 1984. Three years later, she moved to Portugal, where she grew up. She studied language, Literature and Culture at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the NOVA University Lisbon. She was part of the anti-racist and feminist association, INMUNE – Instituto da Mulher Negra em Portugal, created by Joacine Katar Moreira, and is a member of UNA – União Negra das Artes.

Awards and recognition In 2022, Lisbon City Council invited 48 authors to write a sentence alluding to freedom, and Gisela Casimiro was one of them. The 48 sentences were then painted on the ground in the city as part of the celebrations for the 48th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution. In 2023, she was listed as one of the 100 influential black personalities in Lusophony, as part of the 100 Power List, an initiative by the digital magazine Bantumen.

Selected work Translations Irmã Marginal (2023, Orfeu Negro)

Poetry Erosão (2018, Urutau; ) Giz (2023, Urutau)

Theatre plays Casa com Árvores Dentro (2022, dir. Cláudia Semedo)

Collections Rio de Pérolas (2020, ed. António Martins, Ipsis Verbis) Reconstituição Portuguesa (2022, ed. Viton Araújo and Diego Tórgo, Companhia das Letras; )