João Vário
João Vário (June 7, 1937 in Mindelo on São Vicente Island, Cape Verde – August 7, 2007 in Mindelo on Island, Cape Verde) was a Cape Verdean writer, neurosurgeon, scientist and professor.[1][2] The name was a pseudonym of João Manuel Varela. Other aliases included Timóteo Tio Tiofe and G. T. Didial.
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| Born | 7 June 1937 Mindelo, São Vicente, Cape Verde |
| Died | 7 September 2007 (aged 70) Mindelo, São Vicente, Cape Verde |
| Occupation | writer, neurosurgeon, scientist, professor |
He studied medicine in the universities of Coimbra and Lisbon. He earned a doctorate from the University of Antwerp in Belgium. He was a researcher and professor of neuropathology and neurobiology. He returned to his native Mindelo where he lived until his death[3]
He also wrote several poems. He influenced writers such as Saint-John Perse, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and Aimé Césaire.
Works
- Exemplos 1-9 (Examples 1-9), volume that included General Example (Exemplo Geral), Relative Example (Exemplo Relativo), Dubious Example (Exemplo Dúbio) and Propriate Example (Exemplo Próprio)
- Cadernos de Notcha, under the pseudonym Timóteo Tio Tiofe
- Contos da Macaronésia (Tales From Macaronesia)
- The State Impenitene On Fragility (O Estado impenitente da Fragilidade) under the pseudonym G. T. Didial
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References
- Serrano (2007)
- Cristóvão 2005, pp. 572–3 s. v. «João Manuel Varela»
- "Na morte de João Vário - Exórdio a um poema, por José Luiz Tavares". Expresso das Ilhas. 8 August 2007. Archived from the original on 10 August 2010. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
Further reading
- Cristóvão, Fernando (2005). Texto Editores (ed.). Dicionário Temático da Lusofonia. ISBN 972-47-2935-4.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Serrano, Luís. «João Vário, Esse Grande Escritor Cabo-Verdiano». Aveiro: 2007, in O Portal das Memórias de África e do Oriente.
External links
- João Vário a great Cape Verdean writer (Portuguese)
- Corsino Fortes and Osvaldo Osório on João Vário (Portuguese)
- Para exemplo (coevo) de João Vário, por António Jacinto Pascoal
- Baroque Example: A Poetic Paradigm from João Vário, by Rui Guilherme Gabriel (in Italian and Portuguese)
- Exit from the Divided Paradigm, a Part of the Letter from João Vário, by Silvina Rodrigues Lopes (in Portuguese)
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