Teodomiro Leite de Vasconcelos

Teodomiro Alberto Azevedo Leite de Vasconcelos (* August 4, 1944 in Arcos de Valdevez, Portugal, † January 29, 1997 in Johannesburg, South Africa ) was a Mozambican writer and journalist.

Leite de Vasconcelos came in the year of his birth to Mozambique and received the Mozambican citizenship. He spent his childhood in Beira and later studied social science in Lourenço Marques. He began his career as a radio journalist at the radio station Rádio do Aero Clube da Beira. From 1969 he worked for the station Rádio Clube de Moçambique. Since he politically active against the colonial regime in 1972, he had left the country and went to Portugal. There, too, he campaigned for the opposition. So he founded the Catholic radio station Rádio Renascença the program " limits " in which he read the first verse of " Grândola, Vila Morena " by José Afonso on 25 April 1974, the song played after that. This was agreed as a start signal for the Carnation Revolution.

After the independence of Mozambique from Portugal, he returned in 1975 to Mozambique and worked as a journalist for the radio and for many Mozambican magazines. In addition to his work as a journalist, he worked as a teacher, actor and political commentator. From 1981 to 1988 he was director of the public- service broadcaster Rádio Moçambique. He also was the lead member of the National Association of Journalists and the Mozambican Writers' Association Associação dos Escritores Moçambicanos.

Leite de Vasconcelos died in 1997 after a serious illness in Johannesburg.

The film O Gotejar da Luz by Fernando Vendrell, 2001 was a film adaptation of his short story of the same name.

Works

• Irmão do Universo, Maputo, Associação dos Escritores Moçambicanos, 1994 - (poetry )
• Resumos, Insumos e Dores Emergent, Maputo, Associação dos Escritores Moçambicanos, 1997 - ( poems, posthumously )
• Pela Boca Morre o Peixe, Maputo, Associação dos Amigos de Leite de Vasconcelos, 1999 - ( chronicles, posthumously )
• As Mortes de Lucas Tadeu, Coimbra, Cena Lusófona, 2000 - ( play, posthumously )
• A Nona Pata since Aranha, Maputo, Promedia, 2004 - (stories, posthumous )

His story O Gotejar da Luz was filmed in 2001 by Fernando Vendrell.