Angola: UEA regrets death of Corsino Fortes – AngolaPress

The writer died last Friday in his hometown of Mindelo, age 82, cancer victim, scarce two days after launching the latest book “Silent bells: local songs.”

In its note, the UAS states that Corsino Fortes was one of the most prominent literary Lusophone, who managed with his trilogy “Bread and Phoneme” (1974), “Tree Drum” (1986) and “Stone Sol & amp; Substance “(2001), expressing a retelling of the post-colonial consciousness of society and culture of Cape Verde.

It notes that the same presided over the Association of Cape Verde Writers from 2003 to 2006 and was considered by many critics as “the greatest epic poet of the islands, most prince or poet of Cape Verde”.

Corsino Fortes, reads the note, he changed the angle of approach of the thematic literature, with the introduction of symbolic elements of the island universe, projecting the subject of hope against migration.

“It was for users of the Portuguese language a configurator of the collective memory of a group, by striking use of a historical consciousness language , independence of the fruit of the people of Cape Verde “, expresses the note of the UEA.