Baltasar Lopes da Silva

Baltasar Lopes da Silva was born on São Nicolau in 1907, studied law and Romance philology in Lisbon, then returned to Cape Verde, where he taught and headed the lycée of Mindelo, on the island of São Vicente. In 1936, with Manuel Lopes and Jorge Barbosa, he founded the review Claridade, which turned the literature of the archipelago away from the Portuguese model. He also published a study of Cape Verdean Creole, a language he defended as a full idiom in its own right. He died in Lisbon in 1989.

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• NovelChiquinhoBaltasar Lopes da Silva · 1947Literature