João Vário (June 7, 1937 in

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– August 7, 2007 in

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on Island, Cape Verde) was a

an writer,

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, scientist and professor. The name was a pseudonym of João Manuel Varela. Other aliases included Timóteo Tio Tiofe and G. T. Didial. He studied

medicine Medicine is the science and Praxis (process), practice of caring for patients, managing the Medical diagnosis, diagnosis, prognosis, Preventive medicine, prevention, therapy, treatment, Palliative care, palliation of their injury or disease, ...

in the universities of

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and

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. He earned a doctorate from the

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. He was a researcher and professor of

neuropathology Neuropathology is the study of disease of nervous system tissue, usually in the form of either small surgical biopsies or whole-body autopsies. Neuropathologists usually work in a department of anatomic pathology, but work closely with the clini ...

and

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. He returned to his native Mindelo where he lived until his death He also wrote several poems. He was influenced by writers such as

Saint-John Perse Alexis Leger (; 31 May 1887 – 20 September 1975), better known by his pseudonym Saint-John Perse (; also Saint-Leger Leger), was a French poet, writer and diplomat, awarded the 1960 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the soaring flight and the ev ...

T. S. Eliot Thomas Stearns Eliot (26 September 18884 January 1965) was a poet, essayist and playwright.Bush, Ronald. "T. S. Eliot's Life and Career", in John A Garraty and Mark C. Carnes (eds), ''American National Biography''. New York: Oxford University ...

Ezra Pound Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an List of poets from the United States, American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a Collaboration with Nazi Germany and Fascist Ita ...

and

Aimé Césaire Aimé Fernand David Césaire (; ; 26 June 1913 – 17 April 2008) was a French poet, author, and politician from Martinique. He was "one of the founders of the Négritude movement in Francophone literature" and coined the word in French. He ...

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*''Exemplos 1-9'' (''Examples 1-9''), volume that included ''General Example'' (''Exemplo Geral''), ''Relative Example'' (''Exemplo Relativo''), ''Dubious Example'' (''Exemplo Dúbio'') and ''Propriate Example'' (''Exemplo Próprio'') *''Cadernos de Notcha'', under the pseudonym Timóteo Tio Tiofe *''Contos da Macaronésia'' (''Tales From

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'') *''The State Impenitene On Fragility'' (''O Estado impenitente da Fragilidade'') under the pseudonym G. T. Didial

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João Vário a great Cape Verdean writer
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Corsino Fortes and Osvaldo Osório on João Vário
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Para exemplo (coevo) de João Vário, por António Jacinto PascoalBaroque Example: A Poetic Paradigm from João Vário, by Rui Guilherme Gabriel

Exit from the Divided Paradigm, a Part of the Letter from João Vário, by Silvina Rodrigues Lopes
1937 births 2007 deaths Cape Verdean male writers Cape Verdean academics People from Mindelo Writers from São Vicente, Cape Verde {{CapeVerde-writer-stub

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