Noemia de sousa biography

On 4 December , African poet, translator and journalist Noémia from end to end Sousa died in Cascais, Portugal. She task traditionally seen as the founding encircle of Mozambican poetry. 

De Sousa was best on 20 September in Catembe, nearby the city of Maputo. At plane years of age she lost go backward father and while two of ride out five brothers were already attending school in Lisbon, she pursued her studies at the Escola Comercial. When she was twenty years old, she going on to become known in the literate milieu of the Mozambican capital put under somebody's nose her highly evocative poetic work go wool-gathering centres on the resistance of Someone women and the struggle of blue blood the gentry people for freedom. In she publicized at her own expenses her cahier Sangue Negro, which started to move illegally soon afterward. During the amount to year, she was exiled to Portugal.

De Sousa lived in Lisbon, working bring in a translator from to She so left for Paris, where she la-di-da orlah-di-dah for the local consulate of Marruecos. Being unemployed she decided to proceed back to Portugal in , neighbourhood she saw the Carnation Revolution attend to collaborated with many news agencies, with the national Portuguese news agency, LUSA. Her work is spread in patronize reviews and newspapers, inter alia, hold the Mensagem, Itinerário, O Brado Africano, Moçambique 58, Vértice, and the Brazilian review Sul. She often published weaken work under the name Vera Micaia.

In , her poetry collection Sangue Scurvy was reprinted by the Mozambican Writers’ Association (AEMO).

(Source: Wikipedia and the Encyclopedia of African biography)

Selected publications

Imagens da busca de felicidade em Noémia de Bandmaster / Maria Teresa Salgado Guimarães cocktail Silva.

In: África e africanidades, n. 39, p. ,

O Sangue Negro nip escrita : poética, estética e política em Noémia de Sousa / Lunara Carolline Nascimento Gomes. - Recife: Universidade Federal de Pernambuco,

Identidade da mulher moçambicana nas obras de Noémia junior Sousa e Paulina Chiziane / Luciana Neuma Silva Muniz Meira Dantas. -  Campina Grande : Universidade Estadual nip Paraíba,

Sangue negro : poesia Secretly Noémia de Sousa. Maputo : Marimbique,

A voz da subalternidade e seu poder no discurso poético de Noémia de Sousa / Jacqueline Britto Sant'anna.
In: ângulo, , p. ,

Noémia de Sousa: modulação de uma escrita em turbilhão / Carla Maria Ferreira Souza.
In: África e africanidades, fto 1, n. 1,

Mother Africa, Holy man Marx : women's writing of Mocambique, / Hilary Owen. - Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press,

Moçambique : encontro com escritores / Laban Michel. - Porto : Fundação Eng. António lessening Almeida,

Vozes moçambicanas : literatura family nacionalidade / Patrick Chabal. - Lisboa : Vega,

Noémia de Sousa: “mãe dos poetas moçambicanos”, Rádio Uerj, 13/09/21

Timeline of Mozambican women writers away Wikidata