António Aurélio Gonçalves

António Aurélio Gonçalves
Born (1901-09-25)25 September 1901
Mindelo, São Vicente, Cape Verde
Died 30 September 1984(1984-09-30) (aged 83)
Mindelo, São Vicente, Cape Verde
Occupation writer, critic, historian, professor
Nationality Cape Verdean

António Aurélio Gonçalves, better known as Nhô Roque (September 25, 1901-30 September 1984) was a Cape Verdean writer, critic, historian and professor.[1][2]

Life

Gonçalves was born in the city of Mindelo, the capital of the island of São Vicente. He was the son of Roque da Silva Gonçalves. He was absent from the island for twenty two years after he headed to the imperial capital of Lisbon in 1917 after his high school studies at the seminary on the island of São Nicolau. He went to the University of Lisbon[1] and studied medicine for two years. Later, he studied Fine Arts, history and philosophy. In 1938, he published a dissertation on the irony in the work by Eça de Queiroz. He returned to his native island in early 1939.

He was a critic in many different areas, book prefaces, literary seminaries of the Professor's Course Formation of the Secondary School, articles and reviews with Ponto & Vírgula.

He was professor of history and philosophy at the Mindelo (Liceu central do Mindelo) and Gil Eanes Lyceums and the technical school. He published several works and wroted for the major Cape Verdean review Claridade and the story O enterro de nha candinha Sena (1957). His other work Noite de Vento (Night Wind) was translated into French, his first work translated into a different language.[3]

He died on September 30, 1984 of a hit and run accident five days after his 83rd birthday.

Legacy

A street (as Rua Dr. António Aurélio Gonçalves) is named after him in Mindelo in his hometown. Along with Eugénio Tavares he was featured in a Cape Verdean escudo banknote, he was also featured in a Cape Verdean stamp[4] . In the national capital of Praia, the António Aurélio Gonçalves Instutide (IpAAG, the Instituto para António Aurélio Gonçalves) is named for him.

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