Ana Paula Tavares

Tecidos

Language: portuguese
Translations: german (Stoffe), lithuanian (Audiniai)

Tecidos

Meu corpo
é um tear vertical
onde deixaste cruzadas
as cores da tua vida : duas faixas um losango
marcas da peste.

Meu corpo
é uma floresta fechada
onde escolheste o caminho

Depois de te perderes
guardaste a chave e o provérbio.

© Ana Paula Tavares
From: Dizes-me Coisas Amargas como os Frutos, 2002
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Ana Paula Tavares

photo © gezett.de
* 30.10.1952, Lubango, Angola
lives in: Lisbon, Portugal
Ana Paula Tavares (born 1952, Angola) studied History and worked as a teacher. She has been living in Portugal since the late 1970s, gaining a doctorate there in African History.
She is involved in several environmental organisations in São Paolo and New York, is a member of the Angolan Writers' Association and the Angolan section of UNESCO. She currently works as a historian in Lisbon.
Tavares' poems deal with Angolan tradition and languages. love and war, and especially with the role of women in African society. Tavares uses a conspicuously unsentimental language, which impresses with its precision and unexpected leaps of thought.
Her work is influenced by the works of the Angolan poets David Mestre, Arlindo Barbeitos and Rui Duarte de Carvalho, and the Brazilian poets Bandeira and Drummond. Tavares' prizes include the Premio Mario Antonio, the most important prize for Portuguese-language writers from Africa.

photo © gezett.de
Publications

  • O Lago da Lua

    2000

  • Dizes-me Coisas Amargas como os Frutos

    2002

  • Ex-Votos

    2003

Awards

  • premio mario antonio

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