António Aurélio Gonçalves

António Aurélio Gonçalves
António Aurélio Gonçalves on a 1000 Cape Verdean escudo note, issued between 2007 and 2014
Born	(1901-09-25)25 September 1901 Mindelo, São Vicente, Cape Verde
Died	30 September 1984(1984-09-30) (aged 83) Mindelo, São Vicente, Cape Verde
Occupation	writer, critic, historian, professor
Nationality	Cape Verdean

António Aurélio Gonçalves, better known as Nhô Roque (September 25, 1901-30 September 1984), was a Cape Verdean writer, critic, historian and professor.

Gonçalves was born in the city of Mindelo, the capital of the island of São Vicente. He was the son of Roque da Silva Gonçalves. He was absent from the island for twenty two years after he headed to the imperial capital of Lisbon in 1917 after his high school studies at the seminary on the island of São Nicolau. He went to the University of Lisbon and studied medicine for two years. Later, he studied Fine Arts, history and philosophy. In 1938, he published a dissertation on the irony in the work by Eça de Queiroz. He returned to his native island in early 1939.

He was a critic in many different areas, book prefaces, literary seminaries of the Professor's Course Formation of the Secondary School, articles and reviews with Ponto & Vírgula.

He was professor of history and philosophy at the Mindelo (Liceu central do Mindelo) and Gil Eanes Lyceums and the technical school. He published several works and wroted for the major Cape Verdean review Claridade and the story O enterro de nha candinha Sena (1957). His other work Noite de Vento (Night Wind) was translated into French, his first work translated into a different language.

He died on September 30, 1984 of a hit and run accident five days after his 83rd birthday.

He belonged to a family of great literary figures including the poet José Lopes da Silva and the writer Baltasar Lopes da Silva.

A street (as Rua Dr. António Aurélio Gonçalves) is named after him in Mindelo in his hometown, also to the west is a park named after him under his nickname (Parque Nhô Roque) located by Avenida Marginal and Porto Grande Bay. Along with Eugénio Tavares he was featured in a Cape Verdean $1000 escudo banknote issued between 2007 and 2014, he was also featured in a Cape Verdean stamp. In the national capital of Praia, the António Aurélio Gonçalves Instutide (IpAAG, the Instituto para António Aurélio Gonçalves) is named for him.