Manuel Lopes (writer)

Manuel Lopes was born on December 23, 1907, in Mindelo on the island of São Vicente, Cape Verde, which was then a territory of Portugal. He moved to Coimbra in mainland Portugal to attend secondary school. At the age of 16, he returned to São Vicente and started working at an English company that exploited a transatlantic telegraph cable. Aged 23, he started working for a similar Italian company, but he lost his job due to the Second World War and settled on his farm on the island of Santo Antão. In 1944, back in service at his first employer, he transferred to the island of Faial in the Azores. After eleven years on Faial, he moved to mainland Portugal. He died in Lisbon in 2005 at the age of 97. ==Honors==

A street is named for him in the city of Praia in the neighborhood of Craveiro Lopes. ==A stream unrelated to the writer==

The stream in the island of Santo Antão, Cape Verde named Ribeira Manuel Lopes is not the same etymology it is named after another Manuel Lopes. ==Works==

Here is a list of works by Manuel Lopes: • Fiction: • Chuva Braba, 1956, Fernão Mendes Pinto Award • O galo que cantou na Baía, 1959 • Os Flagelados do Vento Leste, 1960, Prémio Meio Milénio do Achamento das Ilhas de Cabo Verde • Poetry: • Horas Vargas, 1934 • Poemas de quem ficou, 1949 • Folha Caída, 1960 • Crioulo e outros poemas (Creole and Other Poems), 1964 • Falucho Ancorado, 1997 • Prose: • Monografia Descritiva Regional (Monography of Regional Descriptions), 1932 • Paúl, 1932 • Temas Cabo-verdianos (Cape Verdean Themes), 1950 • Os meios pequenos e a cultura, 1951 - essay • Reflexões sobre a literatura cabo-verdiana (Reflections on Cape Verdean Literature), 1959 - essay • As personagens de ficção e seus modelos, 1973 ==References==