Corsino António Fortes
- Literatura
- poesia
- político
Corsino António Fortes was born on February 14, 1933 in the poorest part of Mindelo, on the island of São Vicente. Corsino António Fortes was orphaned while still in school. He had to work as a blacksmith and then in offices for $4 a day.
Poetry became public in his life in 1957, when his first poems were published in the newspaper of the 3rd Liceal Cycle. He graduated in Law from the University of Lisbon in 1966, where he lived at the Casa dos Estudantes do Império. In Angola, as a judge at the Court of Benguela and Luanda, he did not allow judicial papers to keep him away from poetry. And there, a PAIGC (African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde) militant in clandestinity, he used writing to fight against colonial rule. His poems appeared in the 1960s in some publications such as the magazine Claridade or the anthology Modernos Poetas Caboverdianos. But he only released his first book in 1974, Pão & Fonemas, which with Árvore & Tambor Editores in 1986 and Pedras de Sol & Substância (2001) formed A Cabeça Calva de Deus. The trilogy tells the people's saga for freedom.
He was a member of several governments in the Republic of Cape Verde and the first Cape Verdean ambassador to Portugal in 1975.
He presided over the Association of Writers of Cape Verde (2003-2006). The works such as Pão e Fonema ou Árvore e Tambor express a new awareness of Cape Verdean reality and a new reading of the cultural tradition of that archipelago.
Corsino António Fortes was born on February 14, 1933 in the poorest part of Mindelo, on the island of São Vicente. Corsino António Fortes was orphaned while still in school. He had to work as a blacksmith and then in offices for $4 a day.
Poetry became public in his life in 1957, when his first poems were published in the newspaper of the 3rd Liceal Cycle. He graduated in Law from the University of Lisbon in 1966, where he lived at the Casa dos Estudantes do Império. In Angola, as a judge at the Court of Benguela and Luanda, he did not allow judicial papers to keep him away from poetry. And there, a PAIGC (African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde) militant in clandestinity, he used writing to fight against colonial rule. His poems appeared in the 1960s in some publications such as the magazine Claridade or the anthology Modernos Poetas Caboverdianos. But he only released his first book in 1974, Pão & Fonemas, which with Árvore & Tambor Editores in 1986 and Pedras de Sol & Substância (2001) formed A Cabeça Calva de Deus. The trilogy tells the people's saga for freedom.
He was a member of several governments in the Republic of Cape Verde and the first Cape Verdean ambassador to Portugal in 1975.
He presided over the Association of Writers of Cape Verde (2003-2006). The works such as Pão e Fonema ou Árvore e Tambor express a new awareness of Cape Verdean reality and a new reading of the cultural tradition of that archipelago.
