Arménio Vieira
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Arménio Vieira at the café Cachito in Praia in 1997.
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| Born | Arménio Adroaldo Vieira e Silva (1941-01-29) 29 January 1941 (age 83) Praia, Cape Verde |
| Occupation | Writer, poet, journalist |
Arménio Adroaldo Vieira e Silva (Portuguese pronunciation: [ɐɾˈmɛniu ɐðɾuˈaldu viˈɐjɾɐ i ˈsilvɐ]; born January 29, 1941) is a Cape Verdean writer, poet and journalist. He began his activity during the 1960s, collaborated in SELÓ, Boletim de Cabo Verde, Vértice (Coimbra) review, Raízes, Ponto & Vírgula, Fragmentos, Sopinha de Alfabeto and others.
Three of his poems— Lisboa (1971), Quiproquo and Ser tigre— can be found on the CD Poesia de Cabo Verde e Sete Poemas de Sebastião da GamabyAfonso Dias.[1]
He won the Camões Prize in 2009 on the work O Poema, a Viagem, o Sonho.[2]
His poems were celebrated by Mito Elias (also simply as Mito) in Praia and Mindelo in 2011.[3]
He started a series of "versions of books, poetic and miscellaneous notes" in June 2013 with O Brumário, later Derivações do Brumário and recently Fantasmas e Fantasias do Brumário in 2014.
| Preceded by | Camões Prize 2009 |
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Laureates of the Camões Prize
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| Portuguese literature |
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| 1989–2000 |
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| 2001–2010 |
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| 2011–present |
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