Ana Paula Tavares

[Os antepassados usam o espelho]

Idioma: portugués
Traducciones: alemán ([Die Ahnen schauen in den Spiegel]), lituano ([Protėviai žvelgia į veidrodį])

[Os antepassados usam o espelho]

Os antepassados usam o espelho
Todas as noites

Eh! Olha a aldeia dos nossos antepassados
A verdadeira aldeia sombreada de palmeiras
Que nos obrigaram a abandonar
Eh! Os antepassados
Eh! Os nossos antepassados
Mais as aldeias que nos obrigaram a abandonar
As aldeias sombreadas de palmeiras
Eh! O conjunto tão bonito das nossas aldeias
Eh! A aldeia tão bonita dos nossos antepassados
Que nos obrigaram a abandonar

Os antepassados usam o espelho todas as noites

Ana Paula Tavares

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* 30.10.1952, Lubango, Angola
Vive en: 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.

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Publicaciones

  • O Lago da Lua

    2000

  • Dizes-me Coisas Amargas como os Frutos

    2002

  • Ex-Votos

    2003

Premios

  • premio mario antonio

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