Dina Salústio
{{Short description|Cape Verdean novelist (born 1941)}}
{{Infobox writer
| name = Bernardina Oliveira
| pseudonym = Dina Salústio
| birth_date = 1941
| occupation = Novelist, journalist, short story writer, poet
| citizenship = Cabo Verde
| notable_works = The Madwoman of Serrano
| awards = Rosalía de Castro Award
}}
Dina Salústio (born 1941) is a Cape Verdean novelist, who is the first woman from the country to publish a novel, and the first writer from the country to have a novel translated to English.
Biography
Dina Salústio is the pseudonym of Bernardina Oliveira, who was born in 1941 in Santo Antão.{{Cite web |title=Biografia de Dina Salustio |url=http://www.ikuska.com/Africa/Historia/biografias/s/salustio_dina.htm |access-date=2022-03-25 |website=www.ikuska.com}} After training as a social worker, she worked for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She has also worked in Portugal and Angola as a journalist, social worker and teacher.{{Cite web |title=The Madwoman of Serrano by Dina Salústio : Our Books :: Dedalus Books, Publishers of Literary Fiction |url=http://www.dedalusbooks.com/our-books/book.php?id=00000332 |access-date=2022-03-25 |website=www.dedalusbooks.com}}
A prominent literary activist in Cabo Verde, she co-founded the Associação Escritores Cabo-Verdianos,{{Cite book |last1=Lima-Neves |first1=Terza A. Silva |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VvYrEAAAQBAJ&dq=Dina+Sal%C3%BAstio&pg=PA24 |title=Cabo Verdean Women Writing Remembrance, Resistance, and Revolution: Kriolas Poderozas |last2=Pilgrim |first2=Aminah N. |date=2021-05-11 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1-7936-3490-0 |language=en}} as well as two magazines, Mudjer and Ponto e Vírgula. Her novel A Louca de Serrano was the first novel to be published by a Cabo Verdean woman.{{Cite web |title=The Madwoman of Serrano by Dina Salústio : Our Books :: Dedalus Books, Publishers of Literary Fiction |url=http://www.dedalusbooks.com/our-books/book.php?id=00000332 |access-date=2022-03-25 |website=www.dedalusbooks.com}}{{Cite web |last=Soutar |first=Jethro |date=19 July 2017 |title=Translating Dina Salústio, Cape Verde's First Female Novelist |url=https://brittlepaper.com/2021/07/translating-dina-salustio-cape-verdes-first-female-novelist-by-jethro-soutar-essay/ |website=Brittle Paper}} Its translation, The Madwoman of Serrano by Jethro Soutar, is the first English translation of a novel from Cabo Verde.
Awards
In 2020, the English translation of A Louca de Serrano was short-listed for The Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize. In 2016, she was presented with a Rosalía de Castro Award for lifetime achievement by PEN Galicia (es).{{Cite web |date=2016-09-10 |title=Grandes, Dina Salústio, Alex Susanna e Landa gañan os premios Rosalía de Castro |url=https://www.lavozdegalicia.es/noticia/cultura/2016/09/10/span-langglgrandes-dina-salustio-alex-susanna-landa-ganan-os-premios-rosalia-castrospan/0003_201609G10P36992.htm |access-date=2022-03-25 |website=La Voz de Galicia |language=es}}{{Cite web |title=Dina Salústio : Our Authors & Translators :: Dedalus Books, Publishers of Literary Fiction |url=http://www.dedalusbooks.com/our-authors-and-translators-details.php?id=00000355&fr=p |access-date=2022-03-25 |website=www.dedalusbooks.com}}{{Cite web |title=The Madwoman of Serrano |url=https://www.englishpen.org/translation/the-world-bookshelf/titles/the-madwoman-of-serrano/ |access-date=2022-03-25 |website=English Pen |language=en-GB}} In 1994 she was awarded the national prize for children's literature.{{Cite web |last=Infopédia |title=Dina Salústio - Infopédia |url=https://www.infopedia.pt/apoio/artigos/$dina-salustio |access-date=2022-03-25 |website=Infopédia - Porto Editora |language=pt}}
Reception
Salústio's works, both creative and non-fiction, address issues relating to women's rights and Cabo Verdean society and centring female perspectives.{{Cite web |title=Bernardina Oliveira ( Dina Salústio) / Personalidades / Identidade / Início - CABO VERDE info |url=http://www.caboverde-info.com/Identidade/Personalidades/Bernardina-Oliveira-Dina-Salustio |access-date=2022-03-25 |website=www.caboverde-info.com}}{{Cite book |last=Arenas |first=Fernando |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eThbx7A_mEEC&dq=Dina+Sal%C3%BAstio&pg=PA165 |title=Lusophone Africa: Beyond Independence |date=2011 |publisher=U of Minnesota Press |isbn=978-0-8166-6983-7 |language=en}} Her works are considered an important contribution to postcolonial literature of Cabo Verde.{{Cite journal |last=Santos |first=Olímpia Maria dos |date=2018-09-28 |title=DINA SALÚSTIO: Mulher, Caboverdiana, Escritora |url=http://revista.ugb.edu.br/ojs302/index.php/episteme/article/view/993 |journal=Episteme Transversalis |language=pt |volume=9 |issue=2 |issn=2236-2649}} She is also viewed as a writer who counters the masculine perspectives that can be prevalent in African literature.{{Cite book |last=George |first=Olakunle |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JZYOEAAAQBAJ&dq=Dina+Sal%C3%BAstio&pg=PA309 |title=A Companion to African Literatures |date=2021-03-22 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=978-1-119-05817-5 |language=en}}
Selected works
= Novels =
- A Louca de Serrano (The Madwoman of Serrano), 1998{{Cite book |last=Salústio |first=Dina |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KrFtngEACAAJ |title=A louca de Serrano |date=1998 |publisher=Edições Spleen |language=pt}}{{Cite book |last=Salústio |first=Dina |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9pjeDwAAQBAJ |title=The Madwoman of Serrano |date=2020-04-20 |publisher=SCB Distributors |isbn=978-1-912868-31-5 |language=en}}
- Filhas do Vento (Daughters of the Wind), 2009{{Cite book |last=Salústio |first=Dina |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eH8CngEACAAJ |title=Filhas do vento |date=2009 |publisher=Instituto da Biblioteca Nacional e do Livro |language=pt}}
- Veromar (See-the-sea), 2019{{Cite book |last=Salústio |first=Dina |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WozFxQEACAAJ |title=Veromar |date=2019 |publisher=Rosa de Porcelana Editora |isbn=978-989-8961-06-8 |language=pt}}
= Short stories =
- Mornas eram as noites (Warm were the Nights), 1994{{Cite book |last=Salústio |first=Dina |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yBbvAAAAMAAJ |title=Mornas eram as noites |date=1994 |publisher=Instituto Caboverdiano do Livro e do Disco |language=pt-BR}}
- Filhos de Deus (God's Children), 2018{{Cite book |last=Salústio |first=Dina |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SqK1wwEACAAJ |title=Filhos de deus: contos e monólogos |date=2018 |publisher=Biblioteca Nacional de Cabo Verde |language=pt}}
= Non-fiction =
- Violência contra as mulheres (Violence Against Women), 1994{{Cite book |last=Salústio |first=Dina |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1o27GwAACAAJ |title=Violência contra as mulheres |date=1999 |publisher=Instituto da Condição Feminina |language=pt}}
References
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Category:Cape Verdean women writers
Category:Cape Verdean women short story writers