Eugénio Tavares

Eugénio Tavares, born on the island of Brava in 1867 and died in 1930, an orphan taken in by a family of the local bourgeoisie, entered the customs administration and founded newspapers in which he criticised the colonial administration, which for a time drove him to the United States, to New Bedford, among the emigrants from the archipelago. He composed his texts in the speech of his island, then regarded as a mere patois, and founded the first newspaper in Creole in the archipelago. He died in Brava at the age of fifty-nine, two years before his songs were published in a volume.

In the catalogue 1

• PoetryMornas - cantigas crioulasEugénio Tavares · 1932not translated into EnglishLiterature