Sergio Frusoni (August 10, 1901 – May 29, 1975) was a poet and promoter of the
Cape Verdean Creole language.
Biography
Sérgio was born in
on the island of
São Vicente, the son of
Italian immigrants Giuseppe Frusoni and Erminia Bonucci. At the age of 24, he began to work at the ''
Western Telegraph Company'' and changed later on to ''Italcable''. In 1947, he managed the ''
O Café Sport'' in
, the main city of
São Vicente, where he presented poems and anecdotes in Crioulo. After that he went back to work for Italcable. In the 1960s, he conducted the theatre group ''
Theatro do Castilho'' in Mindelo. For a number of years, he was chronicler at the radio ''
Barlavento'', where he produced the program ''Mosaico Mindelense'' in Crioulo.
Sérgio wrote many
short stories and
poems
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in the
Creole of São Vicente (''Criol d' Soncente''). He died, aged 73, in
Lisbon
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. He is well known in Cape Verde, but almost unknown outside the island.
On June 7, 2005, Capeverdean president
Pedro Pires paid homage to Sergio Frusoni and declared him as one of the greatest Crioulo poets.
Corsino Fortes described Frusoni in Paralelo 14 (''Parallel 14'')
Legacy
Some of his poems would be a part of the ''
Tertúlia'' collection which featured poems made by other poets. In 2004, it was performed in a play at the 10th Mindelo Theatrical Festival.
Works
Some famous poems and short stories
Chronicles in Crioulo
*''
Mosaico Mindelense'' ("Mindelense Mosaic")
Short stories in Crioulo
* ''Contrabónde'' (short story) in ''Miscelânea luso-africana''
* ''Na Tribunal''
* ''Dum Bóca pa ôte''
* ''Mute convérsa pa nada''
Poems in Creole
* ''Contrabónde''
* ''Pracinha''
* ''Era um vêz um coquêr''
* ''Presentaçôm''
* ''Pa diante ê qu’ê camin''
* ''Flôr de Béla Sómbra''
* ''Fonte de nha Sôdade, Lembróme''
* ''Mnine d' Sanvicente''
* ''Programa para meninos''
* ''Marí Matchim''
* ''Diante de mar de Sanvicente''
* ''Sanvcênte já cabá na nada''
* ''Sê Brinque''
* ''Carta d'Angola''
* ''Nha Chica''
''Temp’ d’ Caniquinha (Um vêz Sanvcênt era sábe)''
* Sonnet in crioulo dedicated t
Dr. Francisco Regala
Poems in English
* ''Sonnet''
Poems in Portuguese
* ''In Mortis''
* ''À Sogra''
* ''Na Hora X''
* ''A Marmita''
Theatre
- de Sérgio Frusoni
See also
* Manuel d'Novas
* Luís Romano de Madeira Melo
Luís Romano de Madeira Melo (10 June 1922 in Ponta do Sol on Santo Antão, Cabo Verde – 22 January 2010 in Brasil) was a bilingual poet, novelist, and folklorist who has written in Portuguese and the Capeverdean Crioulo of Santo Antão.
Biogra ...
* Eugénio Tavares
* Germano Almeida
References
Further reading
Articles and columns
* Two poems (crioulo of São Vicente) in the literary journal ´ 'Claridade
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-Revista de Arte e Letras' no.9-1966: ''Fonte de nha Sodade' and ''Tempe Felix''
* ''Textos Crioulos Cabo-Verdianos'', published in the book ''Miscelânea luso-africana'', edited by Marius F. Valkhoff, (1975)
* Short story ''Contrabónde'' in ''Miscelânea luso-africana''
* ''A Poética de Sérgio Frusoni: Uma Leitura Antropológica'', a collection of Poems in the crioulo of São Vicente with Portuguese translation, collected by Mesquitela Lima
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, (1992)
Books
* ''Vangêle Contód d'nôs Móda'', a translation of Bartolomeo Rossetti Bartolomeo or Bartolommeo is a masculine Italian given name, the Italian equivalent of Bartholomew. Its diminutive form is Baccio. Notable people with the name include:
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's Roman dialect
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New Testament into the Crioulo of São Vicente (1979)
External links
Works by Sérgio Frusoni, mentioned by Manuel Lopes
by Simone Caputo Gomes
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Poem ''Temp d'Canequinha''
''Este ritual é a "prenda má grande dum pôve e que tá fazê parte de sê vida"''
Aspects of Biography of Sergio Frusoni
Radio BarlaventoRádio Clube do Mindelo''Mestiçagem moldou obra de Sérgio Frusoni''
by Pedro Pires (in Portuguese)
Sermon d'montanha
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1901 births
1975 deaths
Cape Verdean male writers
Writers in Cape Verdean Creole
People from Mindelo
Writers from São Vicente, Cape Verde