Henrique Teixeira de Sousa (September 19, 1919 on the island of Fogo

Fogo, Cape Verde

Fogo is an island in the Sotavento group of Cape Verde. It is the most prominent of the group, rising to nearly 3,000 m above sea level at Pico do Fogo.-Geography:...

 – March 3, 2006) was a doctor and author from Cape Verde

Cape Verde

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Biography

Teixeira de Sousa graduated in 1945 in Lisbon

Lisbon

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 with a degree in Medicine

Medicine

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, having attended in the following year the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Porto

Porto

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. He later specialized in nutrition and initially went to East Timor

East Timor

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 to work as a doctor there. Teixeira de Sousa settled on his natal island of Fogo the following year, where he had an important role in maintaining minimal structures of public health. Later on, he worked on the island of São Vicente

São Vicente, Cape Verde

São Vicente , also Son Visent or Son Sent in Cape Verdean Creole, is one of the Barlavento islands of Cape Verde. It is located between the islands of Santo Antão and Santa Luzia, with the Canal de São Vicente separating it from Santo Antão.- Geography :The island is roughly rectangular in shape...

, until he reformed shortly before the independence of the archipelago from Portugal, and moved to Oeiras, Portugal

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, where he lived until his death in 2006.

Teixeira de Sousa wrote fiction, including novel

Novel

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s, and was a pupil of Baltasar Lopes da Silva

Baltasar Lopes da Silva

Baltasar Lopes da Silva was a writer, poet and linguist from Cape Verde, who wrote in both Portuguese and Cape Verdean Creole. With Manuel Lopes and Jorge Barbosa, he was the founder of Claridade. In 1947 he published Chiquinho, considered the greatest Cape Verdean novel...

. He was a member of the Claridoso Movement, associated to the Claridade

Claridade

Claridade was a literary review inaugurated in 1936 in the city of Mindelo on the island of São Vicente, Cape Verde. It was part of a movement of cultural, social, and political emancipations of the Capeverdean society...

 magazine. He is one of the icons of Cape Verde literature, together with other names such as Manuel Lopes

Manuel Lopes

Manuel António de Sousa Lopes was a Cape Verdean novelist, poet and essayist and a founder of modern Cape Verdean literature. With Baltasar Lopes da Silva and Jorge Barbosa he was a creator of the paper named Claridade...

, Eugénio Tavares

Eugénio Tavares

Eugénio de Paula Tavares was a Cape Verdean poet. He is known through his famous poems , written in the Crioulo of Brava. His name is honored in the name of the town square in Vila Nova Sintra along with a statue.-Mornas:***...

 and Jorge Barbosa.

Teixeira de Sousa was also the mayor of Mindelo

Mindelo

For the parish in Portugal, see Mindelo, PortugalMindelo , is a port city in the northern part of the island of São Vicente in Cape Verde. Mindelo is also the seat of the parish of Nossa Senhora da Luz, and this island's municipality...

, on the island of São Vicente in the 1960s.

Works

• Contra mar e vento - tales book
• Ilhéu de contenda - (first of a trilogy)
• Capitão de Mar e Terra
• Xaguate - (second of a trilogy)
• Djunga
• Na Ribeira de Deus - (third of a trilogy)
• Entre duas Bandeiras
• Oh Mar das Túrbidas Vagas

External links

• http://www.caboindex.com/claridade/
• http://www.eugeniotavares.org/docs/pt/noticias/noticias_inauguracao.html
• http://www.asemana.cv/article.php3?id_article=13315
• http://livroditera.blogspot.com/search/label/HENRIQUE%20TEIXEIRA%20DE%20SOUSA
• http://memoria-africa.ua.pt/search.aspx?q=AU%20'Sousa,%20Henrique%20Teixeira%20de'
• http://www.fflch.usp.br/dlcv/posgraduacao/ecl/pdf/via04/via04_19.pdf