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Tomé Varela da Silva (born 1948 in São Jorge dos Órgãos, Santiago, Cape Verde) is a Cape Verdean writer, poet, philosopher and anthropologist which he studies in an orally tradition and the musical heritage of Cape Verde in which he favored for the usage of Cape Verdean Creole in literature. Himself, he is the author of several poets and stories. His most important works were published in the 1980s and the 1990s

Tomé Varela da Silva
Born	1950 São Jorge dos Órgãos, Santiago, Cape Verde
Occupation	writer, poet, philosopher, anthropologist

He was interviewed along with Corsino Fortes on December 3, 2008 in Nós Fora dos Eixos.[1] He was interviewed again this time with a newspaper Expresso das Ilhas on the alphabet in Cape Verdean Creole[2]

Works

• Na Bóka Noti (2008) - 3 volumes with history[3]

Poems

• "Ter uma, Ter várias"[4]

See also

• Eugénio Tavares
• Manuel Veiga

References

Further reading

• Gerald M. Moser, Changing Africa : the first literary generation of Independent Cape Verde, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 1992, p. 17-18
• Richard A. Lobban Jr and Paul Khalil Saucier, "Tomé Varela da Silva", in Historical dictionary of the Republic of Cape Verde, Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Maryland ; Toronto ; Plymouth, UK, 2007, p. 79-80 ISBN 978-0-8108-4906-8

External links

• Publications by Tomé Varela da Silva at Memórias de Africa e do Oriente) at the University of Algarve (in Portuguese)

На других языках

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[fr] Tomé Varela da Silva

Tomé Varela da Silva, né en 1950 à São Jorge dos Órgãos (île de Santiago), est un philosophe, anthropologue, poète et écrivain cap-verdien qui a étudié la tradition orale et le patrimoine musical du Cap-Vert et milité en faveur de l'usage du créole cap-verdien en littérature. Il est lui-même l'auteur de contes et de biographies. Ses œuvres les plus marquantes ont été publiées dans les années 1980 et 1990.

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