Manuel Lopes

Manuel António de Sousa Lopes (December 23, 1907 – January 25, 2005) was a Cape Verdean novelist, poet and essayist. With Baltasar Lopes da Silva and Jorge Barbosa he was a founder of the journal Claridade, which contributed to the rise of Cape Verdean literature. Manuel Lopes wrote in Portuguese, using expressions typical for Cape Verdean Portuguese and Cape Verdean Creole. He was one of those responsible for describing world calamities of the droughts that caused several deaths in São Vicente and Santo Antão.

Biography Manuel Lopes was born on December 23, 1907, in Mindelo on the island of São Vicente, Cape Verde, which was then a territory of Portugal. He moved to Coimbra in mainland Portugal to attend secondary school. At the age of 16, he returned to São Vicente and started working at an English company that exploited a transatlantic telegraph cable. Aged 23, he started working for a similar Italian company, but he lost his job due to the Second World War and settled on his farm on the island of Santo Antão. In 1944, back in service at his first employer, he transferred to the island of Faial in the Azores. After eleven years on Faial, he moved to mainland Portugal. He died in Lisbon in 2005 at the age of 97.

Honors A street is named for him in the city of Praia in the neighborhood of Craveiro Lopes.

A stream unrelated to the writer The stream in the island of Santo Antão, Cape Verde named Ribeira Manuel Lopes is not the same etymology it is named after another Manuel Lopes.

Works Here is a list of works by Manuel Lopes: Fiction: Chuva Braba, 1956, Fernão Mendes Pinto Award O galo que cantou na Baía, 1959 Os Flagelados do Vento Leste, 1960, Prémio Meio Milénio do Achamento das Ilhas de Cabo Verde Poetry: Horas Vargas, 1934 Poemas de quem ficou, 1949 Folha Caída, 1960 Crioulo e outros poemas (Creole and Other Poems), 1964 Falucho Ancorado, 1997 Prose: Monografia Descritiva Regional (Monography of Regional Descriptions), 1932 Paúl, 1932 Temas Cabo-verdianos (Cape Verdean Themes), 1950 Os meios pequenos e a cultura, 1951 - essay Reflexões sobre a literatura cabo-verdiana (Reflections on Cape Verdean Literature), 1959 - essay As personagens de ficção e seus modelos, 1973