Conceição Lima

Conceição Lima, actually Maria de Conceição Costa de Deus Lima ( born December 8, 1961 in Santana, São Tomé, São Tomé and Príncipe ) is a sãotomesische poet and journalist.

Life

Conceição Lima and was born in the village of Santana on the main island of São Tomé. In São Tomé she spent her childhood, where he attended school up to university. After studying journalism in Portugal, she returned to São Tomé, where she worked in various media, as in television, radio and several newspapers. In the 90s, she was founder and director of the weekly newspaper " O pais hoje " ( The country today ) and advanced to become one of the leading intellectuals of their country. Later she went to London, where she received further study and at King's College lusoafrikanische and Brazilian languages ​​and culture, and at the School of Oriental and African Studies ( SOAS ) studied African Studies with a focus on policy. Subsequently, she was more than 20 years, responsible for the production of Portuguese-speaking contributions to the BBC. In 2010 she returned again back to São Tomé e Príncipe, to accept their own interview broadcast on state television santomensichen. The end of 2010 she was dismissed for critical statements about the government. Since then she has worked as a freelance journalist in São Tomé e Príncipe.

The author Lima

Her work first appeared scattered in various anthologies, journals and magazines in various countries, including her native São Tomé and Príncipe, but also in Portugal, Brazil, Austria, Spain, Angola, Colombia, Germany, Venezuela. My own first book was published in 2004 entitled " O utero da casa " in Lisbon. Also in Lisbon appeared two years later A dolorosa raíz do Micondó. Both volumes were published in 2010 under the title The womb of the house in German translation of Juana and Tobias Burghardt. In 2011 she published a book of poems O País de Akendengué, whose title alludes to the Gabonese poets, philosophers and musicians Pierre Akendengué. Her books have been translated into Spanish, English, Turkish and German. 2012 published all three books for the first time in a sãotomesischen output. 2013 Conceição Lima was a participant of the aligned litprom of African Literature Days in Frankfurt am Main.

Work

• O utero da casa ( The womb of the house), poetry, Lisbon 2004.
• A dolorosa raíz do Micondó ( The painful root of the baobab tree), poetry, Lisbon, 2006.
• O país de Akendengué ( The Land of Akendengué ), poetry, Lisbon, 2011.

Translation

• The uterus of the house and the painful roots of the baobab tree; Poems, bilingual, Delta Edition, 2010.

Swell

• Http://www.edition-delta.de/conceicao-lima.hmtl
• Http://novacultura.de/wb/pages/auf-deutsch/1101_saolima.php

• Journalist
• Author
• São Toméer
• Born in 1961
• Woman