Lisa Castel (born 22 December 1955 in
Quela
Quela is a town and municipality in Malanje Province in Angola. The municipality has 20,949 inhabitants in 2014. It is bounded to the north by the municipalities of Caombo and Kunda-dia-Base, to the east by the municipality of Xá-Muteba, to th ...
,
Malanje Province
Malanje is a Provinces of Angola, province of Angola. It has an area of 97,602 km² and a 2014 census population of 986,363. Malanje is the provincial capital.
Geography
The Malanje Province is located in the north of Angola, the provincia ...
), is an Angolan writer and journalist.
According to
Luís Kandjimbo, Castel belongs to a group of contemporary female writers in Angola such as
Ana Paula Tavares,
Amélia da Lomba and
Ana de Santana, whom he refers to as the "Generation of Uncertainties" ("Geração das Incertezas"), writers who typically display anguish and melancholy in their works, expressing disappointment with the political and social conditions in the country.
Castel has worked for the ''Jornal de Angola'' and the magazine ''
Archote''. She is the author of the poetry collection ''Mukanda'', published in 1988.
Works
*''Mukanda'', Luanda, Angola : União dos Escritores Angolanos, 1988.
References
1955 births
Living people
People from Malanje Province
20th-century Angolan poets
Angolan journalists
Angolan women journalists
20th-century women writers
Angolan women poets
20th-century journalists
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