Silvino Lopes Évora is a Cape Verdean writer, poet, journalist and a university professor.
Biography
He was born in the village of
Chão Bom nearly south of
Tarrafal. He later attended primary school and a preparatory cycle. He achieved secondary education at Liceu de Santa Catarina in
. Later, he went to the city of
Praia
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The fourth-largest agglomerated urban area in Po ...]
, then
Lisbon
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,
Braga
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, Lisbon again and
Santiago de Compostela
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.
Academic career
*1999–2004: Degree in journalism, Faculty of Letters,
University of Coimbra
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*2003–04: Post-graduation in legal journalism, Faculty of Law,
Portuguese Catholic University
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*2004–06: Masters in Communication Sciences - Specialization in Information and Journalism, Institute of Social Sciences,
University of Minho
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* Largo do Paço (rectorate), in Braga
* Campus of Gualtar, in Braga
* Convento dos Congregados, i ...
*2006–10: Doctorate in Communication Sciences - Specialization in Sociology of Information and Communication, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Minho
With a European PhD, he spent a semester of research at the
University of Santiago de Compostela
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.
In 2016, he became professor and coordinator on the journalism course at the
University of Cape Verde
The University of Cape Verde (, abbreviated "Uni-CV") is the only public university of Cape Verde. The main campus is in Palmarejo, Cape Verde, Palmarejo, Praia, but there are also institutes in Mindelo, Assomada and São Jorge dos Órgãos. It ha ...
.
Bibliography
In 2009, he launched his first poet work, ''Rimas no Deserto - Poemas Inéditos''. Subsequently, he published the third anthology of Lusophony Poets. In 2010, he started the second poetry book called ''O Passaporte da Diáspora'' (''The Passport to the Diaspora''). He launched a scientific field in 2011 in association with MinervaCoimbra ''Concentração dos Media e Liberdade de Imprensa'' (''Concentration on the Media on the Freedom of Press''). He published an anthology of poets from Tarrafal, his hometown in 2014 and recently published poetic writings of Cape Verdeans in 2015.
*''Rimas no Deserto - Poemas Inéditos'' (''Desert Rhymes, Unfinished Poems''), 2010, Chiado Editora, Lisboa
*''O Passaporte da Diáspora'', 2011, WAF Editora, Porto
*''Concentração do Media e Liberdade de Imprensa'' (''Concentration on the Media on the Freedom of Press''), 2011, MinervaCoimbra, Coimbra
*''Políticas de Comunicação e Liberdade de Imprensa'' (''Politics of Communication and Freedom of Press''), 2012, Editura, Praia.
*
rganization with Alfredo Pereira''As Ciências de Comunicação em Cabo Verde'' (''Communication Sciences in Cape Verde''), 2013, INTERCOM, São Paulo.
*
rganization''Antologia dos Poetas de Tarrafal de Santiago'' (''Anthology of Poets from Tarrafal de Santiago''), 2014, Editorial Sotavento, Praia.
*''Tratado Poético da Cabo-verdianidade'' (''Poetic Writings by Cape Verdeans''), 2015, Editorial Sotavento, Cidade da Praia.
Awards and nominations
*Grande Prémio Cidade Velha, 2010, Ministry of Culture, Praia, Cape Verde
*
Orlando Pantera Award - Youth Talent, 2010, Ministry of Culture, Praia, Cape Verde
*Ministry of Poetry Award: 2009, WAF Editors, Porto, Portugal
*Incentive Contest on the Works in Social Communications, Cabinet of the Means of Social Communications, Portugal
Notes
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
People from Tarrafal
Cape Verdean male writers
Cape Verdean poets
Cape Verdean journalists
Cape Verdean academics
21st-century poets
21st-century male writers