Sergio Frusoni (August 10, 1901 – May 29, 1975) was a poet and promoter of the
Cape Verdean Creole
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language.
Biography
Sérgio was born in
on the island of
São Vicente, the son of
Italian
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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
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and
poems
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in the
Creole of São Vicente (''Criol d' Soncente''). He died, aged 73, in
Lisbon. He is well known in Cape Verde, but almost unknown outside the island.
On June 7, 2005, Capeverdean president
Pedro Pires
Pedro de Verona Rodrigues Pires (; born 29 April 1934) is a Cape Verdean politician who served as Prime Minister of Cape Verde from 1975 to 1991, and later as President from 2001 to 2011.
Life and career
Pires was born in São Filipe, Fogo, Cape ...
paid homage to Sergio Frusoni and declared him as one of the greatest Crioulo poets.
Corsino Fortes
Corsino António Fortes (14 February 1933 – 24 July 2015) was a Cape Verdean writer, poet and diplomat. He served as the first Ambassador of Cape Verde to Portugal from 1975 until 1981 following his country's independence.
Biography
Forte ...
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
* Eugénio Tavares
Eugénio de Paula Tavares (born 18 October 1867 in the island of Brava; died 1 June 1930 in Vila Nova Sintra) was a Cape Verdean poet. He is known through his famous poems (''mornas''), mostly written in the Creole of Brava.
Biography
Eugénio ...
* Germano Almeida
Germano Almeida (; born 31 July 1945) is a Cape Verdean author and lawyer.
Biography
Born on the Cape Verdean island Boa Vista, Almeida studied law at the University of Lisbon and currently practices in Mindelo. His novels have been translat ...
References
Further reading
Articles and columns
* Two poems (crioulo of São Vicente) in the literary journal ´ ' Claridade-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, (1992)
Books
* ''Vangêle Contód d'nôs Móda'', a translation of Bartolomeo Rossetti'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
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