Calane da Silva
Raúl Alves Calane da Silva (20 October 1945 – 29 January 2021) was a Mozambican writer, journalist, and poet.[1]
Calane da Silva | |
|---|---|
| Born | Raúl Alves Calane da Silva 20 October 1945 |
| Died | 29 January 2021 (aged 75) |
| Nationality | Mozambican |
| Occupation(s) | Writer Journalist |
Biography
Da Silva was born in Laurenço Marques (today Maputo) to a Portuguese father and a Ronga mother.[2] In his most popular work, Dos Meninos da Malanga, he detailed memories of living as a black teenager in the high-crime suburbs of Maputo.[3]
As a student, da Silva followed the ideals of the Núcleo de Estudantes Secundários Africanos de Moçambique, a Mozambican nationalist movement founded by Eduardo Mondlane in 1949, although he never joined it.[4] He served in the Portuguese Army from 1965 to 1968 in Nampula. He began working for the newspaper Notícias and Tempo. He founded organizations such as Tchova Xi Ta Duma, a theatre troupe where he was a director and an actor, as well as the Associação dos Escritores Moçambicanos.[5] In the 1990s, he became a professor at Maputo University. In 2003, he published a book detailing the contributions of Ronga, his native language, to the speaking of Portuguese in Mozambique.[6] He defended a thesis at the University of Porto in 2009 titled Do lexico à possibilidade de campos isotópicos literários.[7]
Calane da Silva died of COVID-19 in Maputo on 29 January 2021, at the age of 75, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Mozambique.[8]
Distinctions
- Prémio José Craveirinha de Literatura (2010)[9]
- Order of Rio Branco (2011)[10]
References
- "Moçambique: Morreu o escritor Calane da Silva, vítima de Covid-19 em Maputo". Vatican News (in Portuguese). 30 January 2021.
- Darch, Colin (2018). Historical Dictionary of Mozambique. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 74–75. ISBN 9781538111352.
- "Crime strikes Malanga neighbourhood in Maputo". Club of Mozambique. 11 September 2019.
- Mozambique : guerre et nationalisme (in French). Karthala: Politique africaine. 1988. ISBN 9782811101244.
- "Raul Alves Calane da Silva, 1945-". Mozambique History Net.
- Tão bem palavra : estudos de linguística sobre o portugeês em Moçambique con ênface na interferência das línguas bantu no português e do português no bantu (in Portuguese). Maputo: Imprim. Univ. 2003.
- "Do léxico à possibilidade de campos isotópicos literários" (PDF). Universidade do Porto (in Portuguese). 2009.
- "Moçambique: Morreu o escritor Calane da Silva". VOA (in Portuguese). 29 January 2021.
- "As mil facetas de Calane da Silva, "Prémio Craveirinha 2010"". VOA (in Portuguese). 2 December 2011.
- "Calane da Silva celebra 70 anos com "vida além desta vida"". Magazine Independente (in Portuguese). 28 October 2015. Archived from the original on 6 February 2021. Retrieved 1 February 2021.