Luís Carlos Patraquim

Luís Carlos Patraquim ( born March 26, 1953 in Lourenço Marques, Mozambique ) is a Mozambican poet, drama writer and journalist.

Biography

He worked as a journalist for the magazine A Voz de Moçambique, but had to flee to Sweden in 1973. After the independence of Mozambique in 1975, he returned to his country, where he worked for the magazine A Tribuna. After that, he was a founding member of the news agency Agência de Informação de Moçambique (AIM ) under the direction of Mia Couto.

From 1977 to 1986 Patraquim worked as a screenwriter in the Instituto Nacional de Cinema de Moçambique (INC ) as well as editor of the film magazine Kuxa Kanema.

Together with Calane da Silva and Gulamo Khan, he headed between 1984 and 1986, the Gazeta de Artes e Letras in the journal pace.

Since 1986 he lives in Portugal.

He works for the Mozambican and Portuguese press, writes screenplays and plays.

He is editor of the journal Lusografias.

Works

• Monção. Lisboa e Maputo. Edições 70 e Instituto Nacional do Livro e do Disco, 1980.
• A inadiável viagem. Maputo, Associação de Escritores Moçambicanos, 1985.
• Vinte e tal novas formulações e uma elegia Carnivora. Lisboa, ALAC, 1992.
• Maris Cando luas. Lisboa, Vega, 1992. ISBN 972-699-322-9
• Lidemburgo blues. Lisboa, Editorial Caminho, 1997. ISBN 972-21-1144-2
• O osso CONCAVO e outros poemas ( 1980-2004 ). Lisboa, Editorial Caminho, 2005. ISBN 972-21-1674-6

Plays

• Karingana wa Karingana (2000)
• Vim - te buscar (2002)
• D' abalada
• Tremors Intimos Anónimos (2003, with António Cabrita )
• No Estaleiro geral (2004)

Awards

• Prémio Nacional de Poesia de Moçambique (1995 )