João Vário

João Vário
Born (1937-06-07)7 June 1937
Mindelo, São Vicente, Cape Verde
Died 7 September 2007(2007-09-07) (aged 70)
Mindelo, São Vicente, Cape Verde
Occupation writer, neurosurgeon, scientist, professor

João Vário (June 7, 1937 in Mindelo on São Vicente Island, Cape Verde – August 7, 2007 in Mindelo on Island, Cape Verde) was a Cape Verdean writer, neurosurgeon, scientist and professor.[1][2] The name was a pseudonym of João Manuel Varela. Other aliases included Timóteo Tio Tiofe and G. T. Didial.

He studied medicine in the universities of Coimbra and Lisbon. He earned a doctorate from the University of Antwerp in Belgium. He was a researcher and professor of neuropathology and neurobiology. He returned to his native Mindelo where he lived until his death[3]

He also wrote several poems. He influenced writers such as Saint-John Perse, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and Aimé Césaire.

Works

  • Exemplos 1-9 (Examples 1-9), volume that included General Example (Exemplo Geral), Relative Example (Exemplo Relativo), Dubious Example (Exemplo Dúbio) and Propriate Example (Exemplo Próprio)
  • Cadernos de Notcha, under the pseudonym Timóteo Tio Tiofe
  • Contos da Macaronésia (Tales From Macaronesia)
  • The State Impenitene On Fragility (O Estado impenitente da Fragilidade) under the pseudonym G. T. Didial

References

  1. ↑ Serrano (2007)
  2. ↑ Cristóvão 2005, pp. 572–3 s. v. «João Manuel Varela»
  3. ↑ "Na morte de João Vário - Exórdio a um poema, por José Luiz Tavares". Expresso das Ilhas. 8 August 2007.

Further reading

  • Cristóvão, Fernando (2005). Texto Editores, ed. Dicionário Temático da Lusofonia. ISBN 972-47-2935-4.
  • Serrano, Luís. «João Vário, Esse Grande Escritor Cabo-Verdiano». Aveiro: 2007, in O Portal das Memórias de África e do Oriente.
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