Manuel Ferreira
- Literatura
Manuel Ferreira was born in 1917, in Gândara dos Olivais, Leiria, and died in 1994, in Lisbon; he graduated in Social and Political Sciences. Mobilized as an expeditionary to Cape Verde in 1941, he stayed there for six years, having lived with the groups of the magazines Claridade and Certeza, still being part of his experience overseas stays in India, Angola and Guinea. As a teacher and scholar of African literature, he published numerous studies; he founded and directed the Africa magazine and the ALAC editions and created, at the Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa the subject of African Literature in Portuguese Language.
Collaborator of many Portuguese and foreign magazines, he organized the anthologies No Reino de Caliban (3 vols., 1975, 76, 96) and 50 Poetas Africanos. Antologia Selectiva (1989). His work as a fictionist has been translated into several languages. He was awarded the Fernão Mendes Pinto prizes in 1958 for Morabeza; Ricardo Malheiros in 1962 for Hora di Bai, and the Prémio da Imprensa Cultural for A Aventura Crioula in 1967. A neo-realist writer, his work reflects with critical rigor the reality of Cape Verde. An important part of his work is dedicated to the archipelago to which he devoted great love.
Main works: Grei, (1944); Morna, (1948); Morabeza, (1958); Hora di Bai, (1962); Voz de Prisão, (1971); Terra Trazida, (1972); A Aventura Crioula (1967); Literaturas Africanas de Expressão Portuguesa (1977); Que Futuro para a Língua Portuguesa em África? (1988).
Manuel Ferreira was born in Gândara dos Olivais, Leiria in 1917 and died in Linda-a-Velha, Oeiras, on March 17th, 1994 was a Portuguese writer.
On São Vicente Island, he lived with the Cape Verdean intellectual groups linked to the magazines Clarity and Certainty. Manuel Ferreira would become a profound scholar of the culture of Portuguese expression of the former colonies and was considered, in the most diverse international circles, a world authority in this matter.
He received the Fernão Mendes Pinto awards, in 1958, for Morabeza; Ricardo Malheiros, in 1962, for Hora di Bai; and the Prémio da Imprensa Cultural for A Aventura Crioula, in 1967.
