Boaventura Cardoso

Boaventura Silva Cardoso (born 26 July 1944) is an Angolan politician as well as noted author. He has been the Minister of Culture since December 2002.

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Boaventura Silva Cardoso, was born in Luanda on 26 July 1944 . He lived most of his childhood in Malanje, moving to Luanda to their primary and secondary schooling . He obtained a degree in Social Sciences School of the MPLA - PT and has a degree in Social Sciences from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquino1 .

In the colonial period, was an official of the Finance and Accounting Services . After independence he held various positions as Director of the National Institute of Book and Disk ( INALD ), Secretary of State for Culture, Information Minister, Ambassador of Angola in France, Italy and Malta, representative of Angola to the United Nations ( FAO, WFP and IFAD ) and eight years ( 2002-2010 ) Minister of Culture is currently ( 2010-2012 ) Boaventura Cardoso serves as governor of the province of Malanje . 1.

In 1967 he began writing publishing several short stories and poems in newspapers and magazines Luanda . Was a member of the journal's Editorial Angola 's African National League and is a founding member of the Union of Writers Angolanos1 .

Angolan writer and poet, he lived his early years in Malanje, then went to the city of Luanda . After completing primary and secondary studies he went on to study undergraduate degree in social sciences. Since 1977, he assumed the duties of Director of the National Book and Disc, Secretary of State for Culture and Information Minister . Having become interested in literature while young, he first published at twenty- three, some short stories and poems in the pages of newspapers known cultural capital. Integrates the " generation of 70 " Angola, alongside many other writers his contemporaries, namely: Manuel Rui, Jofre Rocha, Ruy Duarte de Carvalho and Jorge Macedo . As the work of other writers of this generation, their texts are characterized by a strong penchant panegyric of revolutionary ideals and values, where the assurance of independence and freedom are underwritten through a written aesthetically designed and fruit of a reflection on the literary phenomenon, becoming then metaliterário as a process in which the authors also reflect on the socio-political reality of their country . Also, as part of his narrative work, records of discourses that shape their narratives, deeply marked by orality, are crafted by the author, with wisdom and substance, in order to establish a close relationship between the physical and social reality that surrounds characters and their linguistic reality and phonics . Knower of " Being Portuguese ," as the writer, his countryman, Luandino Vieira, in the preface to his work in May, Month of Mary, Boaventura Cardoso called diglossia improper uses as an important instrument of questioning of literary language, through which explores the potentialities of the linguistic system . His last two novels, standing at different temporal contexts, maintain among themselves a deep link which node is pressed through the form of structuring stories . He is a member of the Angolan Writers Union ( UEA ) and the author of the following works : Dizanga day Muenhu, Fire Speech, The Death of the Old Kipacaça ( short stories ) ; Sino Fire, May, Month of Mary (novel ), and Mother, Maternal Mar.

Published works

Writer with work published and referenced in anthologies and studied in universities Portuguese, Brazilian, American, French and Italian . Dizanga Muenhu Day (1977 ), The Fire of Speech (1980 ), The Death of the Old Kipacaça (1987 ), The Sign of Fire (1992 ), May Month of Mary (1997 ), Mother Mother Ocean ( 2001), Nights Vigil (2012 ) 2.

Honoured

The Angolan writer Boaventura Cardoso da Silva, will be honored Monday, the Academy of Letters of the State of Tocantins, the Federative Republic of Brazil, at the launch of his recent literary works . According to a press note that reached ANGOP, also the governor of Malanje province, will, on occasion, a dissertation on the Angolan literature and its literary writing process . During his five-day stay in Brazil, the writer will proceed to the launch of two literary works, including " The allegorical March Angolan maternal mother " and " Boaventura Cardoso -one reinventor words and traditions " in the auditorium of the General Consulate of Angola in Rio de Janeiro . Noteworthy that Boaventura Cardoso is the author of books of short stories and novels, and was in 2001 awarded the national culture and arts, literary discipline for his novel " Mother mother ocean" .

UEA - Digital, Seomara Santos, ANGOP Source

Academic Curriculum

Licentate in Social Sciences from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum in Rome, 2000/2002. Degree in Social Sciences from the College Party ( Luanda ), 1984/1989 ; Second Year Course Supplementary High School Certificate ( Old 7th year), the Liceu Salvador Correia de Sá, 1970/1971 ; Frequency Course Expert Accountant Commercial Institute in Luanda, 1966/1967 ; Course General Chamber of Commerce and the Preparatory Institutes Business and Industry, 1965/1966 .

Curriculum Political and Associative

Governor of Malanje province, Minister of Culture until October 2008, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Angola in Malta, 2000/2002, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Angola in Italy, 2000/2002, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Angola in France, 1992 / 1999, Minister of Information, 1990/1991, Secretary of State for Culture, 1981/1990 .

Professional Curriculum

Director of the National Institute of Books and Records, 1977/1981 ; Director of Public Information of the Ministry of Information, 1975/1976 ; Employee Services Finance and Accounting, 1967/1974 ; writer with work published and referenced in anthologies and studied in Portuguese universities, Brazilian, American, French and Italian . Awards and Honors National Prize for Culture and Arts (2001 ), the discipline of Literature, awarded to the romance of his own " Mother , Mother Ocean " ; Accolade with Medal of Cultural Merit (2006 ), awarded by the Governor of Brazil.

Member

Founding member of the Angolan Writers Union, the 10/12/1975 .

Awards

Won the National Prize of Culture and Art in 2001 with the book Mother Mother MAR2 3 .

references

1 . ↑ Go to : a b c d Boaventura Cardoso . Angolan Writers Union . Retrieved on May 9, 2010 . 2 . ↑ Jump to: ab Awards and rewards : Literature . Ministry of Culture of Angola . Retrieved on May 9, 2010 . 3.Ir up ↑ Writer Boaventura Cardoso honored in the Republic of Brazil . Retrieved on May 9, 2010 .

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Sources

• Profile of Boaventura Cardoso (Portuguese)