Amélia Veiga

Amélia Veiga, also known as Amélia Maria Ramos Veiga Silva (born 1932) is a Portuguese-born Angolan poet and teacher.

Amélia Veiga was born 12 January 1932 in Silves, Portugal. In 1951 she moved to Angola, where she taught in Sá da Bandeira and began publishing poetry. She was awarded the Fernando Pessoa Prize by the Camara Municipality of Sá da Bandeira for her Poemas (1963).

Veiga also worked at the Centre for Higher Education on Policies Studies (CIPES) in Matosinhos, Portugal for several years.

Veiga's poem 'Angola', figuring the speaker's country as a surrogate mother, has frequently been anthologised.[1]

Works

  • Destinos, 1961
  • Poemas, 1963
  • Libertação, 1974
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References

  1. See, for example, Stella and Frank Chipasula, ed., The Heinemann Book of African Women's Poetry, 1995; Ulli Beier and Gerald Moore, The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry, 1999.


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