Luís Romano de Madeira Melo
- Literatura
Luís Romano de Madeira Melo, was born on June 10th 1922 in Vila de Ponta do Sol and died on January 22nd 2010 in Natal, Brazil. He was a Cape Verdean poet, novelist and folklorist, with works in Portuguese and in Cape Verdean Creole on the island of Santo Antão, a language he preferred to call "Cape Verdean language".
Idealist, independent polygraph, his production has been edited in local and international literary bodies. Much of Luís Romano's theme revolves around Cape Verde. Viscerally realistic, he devoted his literary life to the effort to dignify Cape Verdean culture and civilization. Personifying the anxiety of his unalienated countrymen, he became a pioneer in sacrificing himself, by achieving with fearlessness and risk of life, the publication of the first novel of native denunciation, Famintos, about the tragedy of the Cape Verdean people during the flagrant period of the 1940s. The manuscripts of this novel were brought from Cape Verde glued to his body to escape political censorship.
At the end of the 1950s, Luís Romano adhered to the ideals of independence, having even held management positions in the PAIGC, and was persecuted by PIDE. He fled to Algiers and Paris and then went into exile in Brazil, where he lived since 1962.
Luís Romano de Madeira Melo, was born on June 10th 1922 in Vila de Ponta do Sol and died on January 22nd 2010 in Natal, Brazil. He was a Cape Verdean poet, novelist and folklorist, with works in Portuguese and in Cape Verdean Creole on the island of Santo Antão, a language he preferred to call "Cape Verdean language".
Idealist, independent polygraph, his production has been edited in local and international literary bodies. Much of Luís Romano's theme revolves around Cape Verde. Viscerally realistic, he devoted his literary life to the effort to dignify Cape Verdean culture and civilization. Personifying the anxiety of his unalienated countrymen, he became a pioneer in sacrificing himself, by achieving with fearlessness and risk of life, the publication of the first novel of native denunciation, Famintos, about the tragedy of the Cape Verdean people during the flagrant period of the 1940s. The manuscripts of this novel were brought from Cape Verde glued to his body to escape political censorship.
At the end of the 1950s, Luís Romano adhered to the ideals of independence, having even held management positions in the PAIGC, and was persecuted by PIDE. He fled to Algiers and Paris and then went into exile in Brazil, where he lived since 1962.
