Chuva Braba

	Chuva Braba ''Chuva Braba'' (Portuguese meaning ''Strong Rain'') is a novel published in 1956 by Cape Verdean author Manuel Lopes. The book was awarded the Fernão Mendes Pinto award. Along with ''Claridade ''Claridade'' (Portuguese for "light") was a literary review inaugurated in 1936 in the city of Mindelo on the island of São Vicente, Cape Verde. It was part of a movement of cultural, social, and political emancipations of the Cape Verdean soc ...'', Baltazar Lopes participated with Manuel Lopes and Jorge Barbosa with founded members of the review and the name was the movement in the main activists of the same. In other languages The book has been translated into English by Rosendo Évora Brito, titled ''Wild Rain'', published in 1982 and re-issued in 1994. The Spanish version of the novel was translated by Rodolfo Alpízar Castillo and was published in Cuba in 1989. References 1956 novels Books by Manuel Lopes Cape Verdean literature Cape Verdean novels {{1950s-novel- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
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	Manuel Lopes (writer) Manuel António de Sousa Lopes (December 23, 1907 – January 25, 2005) was a Cape Verdean novelist, poet and essayist. With Baltasar Lopes da Silva and Jorge Barbosa he was a founder of the journal ''Claridade'', which contributed to the rise of Cape Verdean literature. Manuel Lopes wrote in Portuguese, using expressions typical for Cape Verdean Portuguese and Cape Verdean Creole. He was one of those responsible for describing world calamities of the droughts that caused several deaths in São Vicente and Santo Antão. Biography Manuel Lopes was born on December 23, 1907, in Mindelo on the island of São Vicente, Cape Verde, which was then a territory of Portugal. He moved to Coimbra in mainland Portugal to attend secondary school. At the age of 16, he returned to São Vicente and started working at an English company that exploited a transatlantic telegraph cable. Aged 23, he started working for a similar Italian company, but he lost his job due to the Second World War and se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
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