Luís Carlos Patraquim 
Author

Poems

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Übersetzung

Gottfried Benn - uma fala portuguese

to poem

O CÍRCULO portuguese

Translations: de

to poem

A IMAGEM NA VARANDA portuguese

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to poem

CINEMAS portuguese

to poem

SUCCUT portuguese

Translations: de

to poem

O OSSO CÔNCAVO portuguese

Translations: de

to poem

ISLÂNDIA portuguese

to poem

ELEGIA DO NILO portuguese

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to poem

[Uma girafa com búzios] portuguese

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to poem

PRAIA DO TOFO portuguese

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to poem

Luís Carlos Patraquim 
Author

* 26.03.1953, Lourenço Marques, Mozambique
lives in: Lisbon, Portugal
Luís Carlos Patraquim was born in Mozambique in 1953 and today works as a journalist and author, writing both poetry and drama.

Patraquim's poems reflect his life marked by the experience of exile. As a young man he fled to Sweden to escape the war of independence in Mozambique and returned in 1975 after Mozambique had gained independence. In 1986 he left his homeland again, which was continually shaken by crises even after independence, and in which the Marxist Freedom Party had seized power. Since then he has lived in Portugal.

While political themes dominate in Patraquim's poetry, he also writes, in addition to poems dealing with the subject of 'exilio melancolico', poems partly inspired by the passion of being in love, which are sometimes openly sexual.

Patraquim was awarded the Prémio Nacional de Poesia, Moçambique in 1995.