Manuel Ferreira (writer)
| Manuel Ferreira | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Jorge Vera-Cruz Barbosa 1917 Gándara dos Olivais, Leiria |
| Died | 17 March 1992 (aged 74–75) Linda-a-Velha, Oeiras |
| Nationality | Portuguese |
| Occupation | writer |
Manuel Ferreira (1917 – 17 March 1992) was a Portuguese writer.
He took commerce and phamaceutic courses at the lyceums. He graduated in Social Sciences at the Technical University of Lisbon.
During his military service, he was mobilized on an expeditionary journey to Cape Verde, in 1941, he had stationed for six years until 1947. In the city of Mindelo on the island of São Vicente, he lived with Cape Verdean intellectual groups who worked in the reviews Claridade and Certeza.
He married the Cape Verdean writer Orlanda Amarílis and raised two children Sérgio Manuel Napoleão Ferreira who was born in Cape Verde and Hernâni Donaldo Napoleão Ferreira who was born in Goa.
After stationed in Cape Verde, he visited Goa which was in Portuguese India and Angola, he also visited other African countries. Manuel Ferreira became a profound student of the Portuguese expression culture of its former colonies and was considered, one of the most diverse international circle, a world authority on its material. Its essay work and fiction by himself - which had denounced the colonial repression by the Fascist regime - it profoundly a marking in his experiences in the former Portuguese colonies where the author lived.
Its African literary essays in Portuguese, alongside with its anthologies on African poetry, it was considered essential for the studies of the writers of creation. Whether for keeping its literary work, whether for differences in African literature in the Portuguese language, it had considered with the African writer of Portuguese expression, which refers to a great universality of the language by Camões.
Manuel Ferreira published a fictional short story titled Grei in 1944, later he published a novel A Casa dos Motas in 1950, works which forms a single neo-realist sense that makes u the most important movement in contemporary Portuguese literature. It had his works that had African inspiration who assumed the identical profile.
Other than his romanesque and essay works, a part of his work were translated into other languages including English, Ferreira was the same author of children's books. He was a teacher and scholar in African literature, he published numerous works and founded and headed a review named "África – Literatura, Arte e Cultura" ("Africa - Literature, Arts and Culture") and ALAC editions. Since the restoration of democrary in Portugal, it was created at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon, a chair of African Literature in the Portuguese language. He contributed several Portuguese and foreign periodical publications and with Vértice and Seara Nova, organized, mainly as anthologies in No Reino de Caliban (3 volumes, 1975, 1976 and 1996) and 50 African Poets: Selective Anthologies (50 Poetas Africanos: Antologia Seletiva) in 1989.
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