Orlando Mendes

Orlando Marques de Almeida Mendes (Island of Mozambique, August 4, 1916 – Maputo, January 11, 1990) was a Mozambican biologist and writer.

Biography

He lived the Portuguese decolonisation of Mozambique. In 1944, he moved with his wife and daughter to Coimbra, where he studied biology at the University of Coimbra.

He worked as a biologist in Lourenço Marques and wrote for several publications such as: Tempo, Itinerário, Vértice and África. In spite of being European, he strongly criticized colonial treatment towards black people and Salazar's administration. During the Portuguese Colonial War, he was with FRELIMO nationalist party.

Works
  • Trajectórias (1940)
  • Clima (1951)
  • Carta do capataz da estrada 95 (1960)
  • Depois do sétimo dia (1963)
  • Portanto, eu vos escrevo (1964)
  • Portagem (1966)
  • Véspera confiada (1968)
  • Um minuto de silêncio (1970)
  • Adeus de gutucumbui (1971)
  • A fome das larvas (1975)
  • País emerso (1975–76)
  • Produção com que aprendo (1978)
  • Lume florindo na forja (1981)
  • Papá Operário mais Seis Histórias (1983)
  • Sobre Literatura Moçambicana (1982)

Prizes
  • Prémio Fialho de Almeida, 1946
gollark: You would need many, many samples of "normal" messages, and then many samples of "obviously wrong because they appear to disagree with you" messages, and a bunch of training time.
gollark: I mean, I don't have one personally, I have no practical experience with modern ML stuff, and more importantly training data.
gollark: No.
gollark: Natural language processing is EXTREMELY HARD to do nicely, so there would be a horrible false positive rate.
gollark: Not really!

References
  • MENDES, O. Sobre Literatura Moçambicana. Maputo: Instituto Nacional do Livro e do Disco, 1982. (Resenha por Russell G. Hamilton, Research in African Literatures, Vol. 17, No. 3, Special Focus on Southern Africa (Outono de 1986), p. 422-425.)
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