Ovídio Martins

Ovídio de Sousa Martins was born on 17 September 1928 in Mindelo. He studied at the Gil Eanes lycée, then began studies in Lisbon that he could not complete for health reasons. A journalist, he was in 1958 one of the founders of the cultural supplement of the bulletin Cabo Verde. Prosecuted for his pro-independence positions, he knew the prisons of Aljube and Caxias, then went into exile in the Netherlands, where he wrote a hundred poems. He wrote in Portuguese and, at times, in the creole of São Vicente. He died on 29 April 1999 in Lisbon.

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• PoetryCaminhadaOvídio Martins · 1962not translated into EnglishLiterature