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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. The name was a pseudonym of João Manuel Varela. Other aliases included Timóteo Tio Tiofe and G. T. Didial.
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
He also wrote several poems. He influenced writers such as Saint-John Perse, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and Aimé Césaire.
Contents
- 1 Works
- 2 References
- 3 Further reading
- 4 External links
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
References
Further reading
- Cristóvão, Fernando (2005). Texto Editores (ed.). Dicionário Temático da Lusofonia. ISBN:972-47-2935-4.
- 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)