Tomé Varela da Silva

Tomé Varela da Silva
Born	1950 São Jorge dos Órgãos, Santiago, Cape Verde
Occupation	writer, poet, philosopher, anthropologist

Tomé Varela da Sila (born 1948 in São Jorge dos Órgãos, Santiago, Cape Verde) is a Cape Verdean writer, poet, philosopher and anthropologist which he studies in an orally tradition and the musical heritage of Cape Verde in which he favored for the usage of Cape Verdean Creole in literature. Himself, he is the author of several poets and stories. His most important works were published in the 1980s and the 1990s

He was interviewed along with Corsino Fortes on December 3, 2008 in Nós Fora dos Eixos.^[1] He was interviewed again this time with a newspaper Expresso das Ilhas on the alphabet in Cape Verdean Creole^[2]

See also

• Eugénio Tavares
• Manuel Veiga

References

1. "Entrevista com os escritores caboverdianos Corsino Fortes e Tomé Varela: quando a Literatura anda de mãos dadas com a Educação" (in Portuguese). Interview with Nós Fora dos Eixos. 3 December 2008.
2. "O alfabeto para a escrita do cabo-verdiano parecia uma floresta de acentos". Expresso das Ilhas (in Portuguese). 10 April 2010.

Further reading

• Richard A. Lobban Jr and Paul Khalil Saucier, "Tomé Varela da Silva", in Historical dictionary of the Republic of Cape Verde, Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Maryland ; Toronto ; Plymouth, UK, 2007, p. 79-80 ISBN 978-0-8108-4906-8

External links

• Publications by Tomé Varela da Silva at Memórias de Africa e do Oriente) (Portuguese)