Mário Alberto Fonseca de Almeida
- Poesia
Mário Alberto de Almeida Fonseca was born in Praia, Cape Verde, in 1939. He was a French teacher in Senegal, worked in Mauritania and Turkey as an administrator.
He has poems scattered in magazines, newspapers and anthologies - Boletim de Cabo Verde, Seló (which he founded together with the Cape Verdean poet Arménio Vieira), África, Internacional, Solidarité, Afrique, África, Raízes, Poésie du monde Noir (Presence Africaine d´Expression Portuguese). His works include "O Mar e as Rosas", which was confiscated in Lisbon in 1964, when the then Portuguese Writers' Association was forcibly shut down by the Political Police.
Poetic work: Près de la mer, Mon pays est une musique et Poissons. His work was translated into several languages.
Mário Alberto de Almeida Fonseca was born in Praia, Cape Verde, in 1939. He was a French teacher in Senegal, worked in Mauritania and Turkey as an administrator.
He has poems scattered in magazines, newspapers and anthologies - Boletim de Cabo Verde, Seló (which he founded together with the Cape Verdean poet Arménio Vieira), África, Internacional, Solidarité, Afrique, África, Raízes, Poésie du monde Noir (Presence Africaine d´Expression Portuguese). His works include "O Mar e as Rosas", which was confiscated in Lisbon in 1964, when the then Portuguese Writers' Association was forcibly shut down by the Political Police.
Poetic work: Près de la mer, Mon pays est une musique et Poissons. His work was translated into several languages.
