Alda Lara
Alda Ferreira Pires Barreto de Lara Albuquerque, known as Alda Lara ( born June 9, 1930 in Benguela, Angola, † January 30, 1962 in Cambambe, Angola ), was a writer and poet.
She created a great poetic work in Portuguese. She had visited the Universities of Coimbra and Lisbon. Her husband, the writer Orlando Albuquerque, published her collected works posthumously.
The Alda Lara Price ( portug.: Prémio Alda Lara ) was built to honor her. Paulo de Carvalho, a famous Portuguese singer with a remarkable career as an artist, set to music " Preludio / Mãe Negra ", a beautiful poem that Alda Lara had written. Some of its other well-known poems: Testamento, Presença Africana, Anuncio, Ronda, Poemas que Escrevia na Areia.
Books (posthumous )
- Poemas (1966 )
- Pace since Chuva (1973 )
- Poesia (1979 )
- Poemas ( 1984) ( Collected Poems )
- Author
- Literature ( Angola)
- Literature ( Portuguese)
- Angolans
- Born in 1930
- Died in 1962
- Woman