Arménio Vieira
- Poesia
Arménio Vieira was born on January 24, 1941 in Praia, Cape Verde. He had multiple professional activities, having been the editor of the former newspaper Voz di Povo. As a poet and fictionist, he published Poems (1981), Eleito do Sol (novel, 1990), No Inferno (novel, 1999), published the following year in Portugal by Caminho, and MITOgrafias (2006). He collaborates in several publications (Mákua, Alerta, Boletim de Cabo Verde, Imbondeiro, Vértice, Raízes, Ponto & Virgula, among others) and is included in several collections.
In 2009 he was awarded the Camões Prize. Helena Buescu, who chaired the jury, said that Arménio Vieira "produced a work that deserves to be included in a certain canon of Portuguese language literature". And Germano Almeida defined him as "one of the greatest poets of the archipelago".
Arménio Vieira was born on January 24, 1941 in Praia, Cape Verde. He had multiple professional activities, having been the editor of the former newspaper Voz di Povo. As a poet and fictionist, he published Poems (1981), Eleito do Sol (novel, 1990), No Inferno (novel, 1999), published the following year in Portugal by Caminho, and MITOgrafias (2006). He collaborates in several publications (Mákua, Alerta, Boletim de Cabo Verde, Imbondeiro, Vértice, Raízes, Ponto & Virgula, among others) and is included in several collections.
In 2009 he was awarded the Camões Prize. Helena Buescu, who chaired the jury, said that Arménio Vieira "produced a work that deserves to be included in a certain canon of Portuguese language literature". And Germano Almeida defined him as "one of the greatest poets of the archipelago".
