Amélia Veiga, also known as Amélia Maria Ramos Veiga Silva (born 1931) is a Portuguese-born Angolan

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. Amélia Veiga was born 1 December, 1931 "Amélia Veiga (Amélia Maria Ramos Veiga Silva) (Angola) b. 1 December 1931 at Silves, Portugal. In 1951 she emigrated to Angola where she taught in the commercial institutes of Sá da Bandeira..." ;

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and Gerald Moore,
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', 1999 in

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. In 1951 she moved to

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, where she taught in Sá da Bandeira and began publishing poetry. She was awarded the Fernando Pessoa Prize by the Camara Municipality of Sá da Bandeira for her ''Poemas'' (1963). Veiga also worked at the Centre for Higher Education on Policies Studies (CIPES) in

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for several years. Veiga's poem 'Angola', figuring the speaker's country as a surrogate mother, has frequently been anthologised.

Works

* ''Destinos'', 1961 * ''Poemas'', 1963 * ''Libertação'', 1974

References

1931 births Living people People from Silves, Portugal 20th-century Angolan poets Portuguese emigrants to Angola Angolan people of Portuguese descent Angolan women poets 20th-century women writers {{Angola-writer-stub