LuÃs Romano de Madeira Melo
Luís Romano de Madeira Melo ( born June 10, 1922 on the island of Santo Antão, † January 22, 2010, Brazil ) was a Cape Verde writer, folklorist and poet.
Life
He worked as a coal miner, salt workers, carpenters, and as a civil servant and was living in 1962 in Brazil. His works he writes partly in Portuguese and Creole of Santo Antão. He prefers to call his own language ' Cape Verdean language '.
Writings
- Famintos (1962, novel in Portuguese)
- Clima (1963 ): Poeme in Portuguese, Creole and French
- Cabo Verde: Renascença de uma civilização no Atlântico médio (1967 ): Collection of poems and short stories in Portuguese and Creole language of Santo Antão.
- Negrume / Lzimparin (1973 ): Short stories in creole of Santo Antão with Portuguese translation.
- Cem Anos de Literatura Caboverdiana, 1985
- Ilha (1991: Lusoverdianische stories from Europ Africa and Brasil America, Portuguese and some Creoles )
- Kriolanda - Estigmas, 1999, São Vicente
- Kabverd Civilização e Cultura, 2000, Rio de Janeiro
- Nho Zidôr ( in ' Ilha '), Pasaport Kabverd ( in ' Ilha '), Daluz ( in ' negrume ') Tanha ( in ' negrume ') Destino ( in ' negrume '), Estórias de Tipêde i Tilôbe ( in ' Cabo Verde Renascença de uma civilização ... ')