Filomena Embaló

Filomena Araújo Embaló[1] (born 1956) is an Angolan-born Bissau-Guinean writer. She is the first woman in Guinea-Bissau to have published a novel.[2]

Filomena Embaló
Born1956
Luanda, Angola
OccupationWriter
Alma materUniversity of Reims

Biography

Filomena Embaló was born in Luanda, Angola, in 1956 to parents from Cape Verde.[3] She moved to Guinea-Bissau as a teenager, in 1975, and became naturalized there.[4] Embaló then studied economics at the University of Reims in France.[3] She holds a doctorate degree.[5]

The 1998–1999 civil war in Guinea-Bissau sent Embaló into an identity crisis,[3] which she explores in her first novel, Tiara, published in 1999.[6][7] The first novel to be published by a Bissau-Guinean woman, Tiara deals with the fallout of colonialism in a fictionalized African country.[2] It was published by the Instituto Camões in Mozambique.[6][3]

Embaló, who writes in Portuguese,[2] went on to publish a short story collection, Carta aberta, in 2005[4] and a poetry collection, Coração cativo, in 2008.[8]

She has also written magazine and journal articles about Bissau-Guinean economics and literature.[9]

Embaló is an avid campaigner for women's rights in Guinea-Bissau.[2] She has worked as a civil servant at home and abroad,[10] at NGOs[8] including the Latin Union before its dissolution in 2012,[1] and as a diplomat.[3][11]

Works
  • 1999: Tiara (novel)
  • 2005: Carta aberta (stories)
  • 2008: Coração cativo (poetry)

References
  1. "Identidade e ruptura na obra da escritora Filomena Embaló". www.archivioradiovaticana.va. Radio Vaticano. 8 August 2017. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
  2. Frascina, Francesca (January 2014). "Gendering the Nation: Women, Men and Fiction in Guinea-Bissau" (PDF). University of Birmingham.
  3. "PROJECTO GUINÉ-BISSAU: CONTRIBUTO – 6 ANOS AO SERVIÇO DA GUINÉ-BISSAU E DOS GUINEENSES!". www.didinho.org. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
  4. "bookshy: #100AfricanWomenWriters: 7. Filomena Embaló". bookshy. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
  5. "PARABÉNS FILOMENA EMBALÓ". www.didinho.org. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
  6. de Almeida Nascimento, Naira (2012). "Despoilments of war, traces of identity: dilemmas of the African Literature of Portuguese Expression through Tiara's voice" (PDF). Muitas Vozes. 1, 1: 29–47. doi:10.5212/MuitasVozes.v.1i1.0002. S2CID 161412902. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 October 2020.
  7. Embaló, Filomena, 1956– (1999). Tiara. [Portugal]: Instituto Camões. ISBN 972-566-200-8. OCLC 45665304.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  8. "FILOMENA EMBALÓ". www.didinho.org. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
  9. "PARABÉNS FILOMENA EMBALÓ". www.didinho.org. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
  10. "Filomena Embaló | The Modern Novel". www.themodernnovel.org. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
  11. Corps diplomatique accrédité auprès des Communautés européennes (1991) (PDF). April 1991. ISBN 92-826-2583-4. OCLC 256778122.
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