Tomé Varela da Silva (born 1948 in
São Jorge dos Órgãos,
Santiago, Cape Verde
Santiago (Portuguese language, Portuguese for “James, son of Zebedee, Saint James”) is the largest island of Cape Verde, its most important agricultural centre and home to half the nation's population. Part of the Sotavento Islands, it lies b ...
) is a Cape Verdean writer, poet, philosopher and anthropologist which he studies in an orally tradition and the musical heritage of Cape Verde in which he favored for the usage of
Cape Verdean Creole
Cape Verdean Creole is a Portuguese-based creole languages, Portuguese-based creole language spoken on the islands of Cape Verde. It is the native creole language of virtually all Cape Verdeans and is used as a second language by the Cape Verd ...
in literature. Himself, he is the author of several poets and stories. His most important works were published in the 1980s and the 1990s
He was interviewed along with
Corsino Fortes on December 3, 2008 in Nós Fora dos Eixos. He was interviewed again this time with a newspaper ''
Expresso das Ilhas'' on the alphabet in Cape Verdean Creole
Works
* ''Na Bóka Noti'' (2008) - 3 volumes with history
Poems
* "Ter uma, Ter várias"
"Ter uma, Ter várias"
poem by Tomé Varela
See also
* Eugénio Tavares
* Manuel Veiga
References
Further reading
*Gerald M. Moser, ''Changing Africa : the first literary generation of Independent Cape Verde'', American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 1992, p. 17-18
* Richard A. Lobban Jr and Paul Khalil Saucier, "Tomé Varela da Silva", in ''Historical dictionary of the Republic of Cape Verde'', Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Maryland ; Toronto ; Plymouth, UK, 2007, p. 79-80
External links
Publications by Tomé Varela da Silva at Memórias de Africa e do Oriente)
at the University of Algarve
1950 births
Living people
Cape Verdean male writers
Cape Verdean poets
Cape Verdean academics
People from Santiago, Cape Verde
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