Henrique Teixeira de Sousa
{{Infobox person
| name = Henrique Teixeira de Sousa
| image = 200escudos-2014-300px-front.jpg
| image_size = 350px
| landscape =
| alt =
| caption = Henrique Teixeira de Sousa on a 200 Capeverdean escudo bill
| native_name =
| native_name_lang =
| birth_name =
| alias =
| birth_date = {{birth date|1919|9|19}}
| birth_place = São Lourenço, Fogo, Cape Verde
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2006|3|3|1919|9|19}}
| death_place = Oeiras, Portugal
| occupation = novelist, poet, essayist
| years_active =
| works =
}}
Henrique Teixeira de Sousa (September 19, 1919 in São Lourenço on the island of Fogo – March 3, 2006) was a doctor and author from Cape Verde.{{cite web|url=http://www.asemana.publ.cv/spip.php?article85445|title=São Filipe: Liceu Teixeira de Sousa em festa|newspaper=A Semana|date=28 February 2013|access-date=26 January 2014|language=pt|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202183144/http://www.asemana.publ.cv/spip.php?article85445|archive-date=2 February 2014|url-status=dead}}
Biography
Teixeira de Sousa graduated in 1945 in Lisbon with a degree in Medicine, having attended in the following year the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Porto. He later specialized in nutrition and initially went to East Timor to work as a doctor there. Teixeira de Sousa settled on his natal island of Fogo the following year, where he had an important role in maintaining minimal structures of public health. Later on, he worked on the island of São Vicente, until he emigrated shortly before the independence of the archipelago from Portugal, and moved to Oeiras, Portugal,{{cite web|url=http://www.eugeniotavares.org/docs/pt/noticias/noticias_inauguracao.html|title=Teixeira de Sousa - Oh Mar das Túrbidas Vagas|website=EugenioTavares.org|language=pt}} where he lived until his death in 2006.
Teixeira de Sousa wrote fiction, including novels, and was a pupil of Baltasar Lopes da Silva. He was a member of the Claridoso Movement, associated with the Claridade magazine. He is one of the icons of Cape Verde literature, together with other names such as Manuel Lopes, Eugénio Tavares and Jorge Barbosa.
In one of his article, it analysed the social structure of Fogo, his native islands, both in his novelsThe Island of Contenda by Henrique Teixeira de Sousa and in his essays,"A estrutura social da Ilha do Fogo" ("Social Structure on the Island of Fogo"), Claridade, no. 5, 1957, "Sobrados, lojas e funcos ", Claridade, no. 8, 1958 showed the concern of white families with the rise of the mixed in the late 1940s, they feared the moment that "the blacks would be pushed out of the funco ; would take the place with the mixed in the loja and the latter would put the Whites in the sobrado."Nelson Eurico Cabral, Le moulin et le pilon, les îles du Cap-Vert (The Mill and the Pestle, the Cape Verde Islands), Harmattan, Paris, ACCT, 1980, p. 145 {{ISBN|2-85802-161-9}} {{in lang|fr}}
Teixeira de Sousa was also the mayor of Mindelo, on the island of São Vicente, in the 1960s.
Legacy
A high school (lyceum) in the city of São Filipe on his native island is named after him.
File:200escudos-2014-300px-back.jpg
Since 2014, he is featured on a Capeverdean $200 escudo note. His face is featured on two sides. It features most of his native island's map, a grape is on the top of the map. On the back is Chã das Caldeiras and Pico do Fogo, the two features of his native island.
Works
- Homens de hoje (1944/45) - featured in the Certeza review
- "Sobrados, lojas e funcos", appeared in the fifth issue of Claridade magazine, published in 1958
- Contra Mar e Vento [Over Sea and Wind] (1972) - book of tales
- Ilhéu de Contenda [The Island of Content'] (1978) - (first of a trilogy) adapted into a drama film The Island of Contenda'' in 1996{{cite web |url= http://www.actes-sud.fr/catalogue/litterature-etrangere/un-domaine-au-cap-vert |title= Un domaine au cap vert |id= First book of a trilogy, published in Lisbon in 1978, adapted to film in 1996, French version was made in 2002 |publisher= Actes Sud |access-date= 2017-12-13 |archive-date= 2017-12-14 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20171214124911/https://www.actes-sud.fr/catalogue/litterature-etrangere/un-domaine-au-cap-vert |url-status= dead }}
- Capitão de Mar e Terra [Captain of Sea and Land] (1984)
- Xaguate (1987) - second of a trilogy
- Djunga (1990)
- Na Ribeira de Deus (1992) - third of a trilogy
- Entre duas Bandeiras [Between Two Flags] (1994)
- Ó Mar de Túrbidas Vagas (2005)
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- {{cite book|last=Fortes|first=Teresa Sousa|url=http://www.asemana.cv/article.php3?id_article=13315|title=Teixeira de Sousa: "O médico anda com muitos ciúmes do escritor"|newspaper=A Semana Online|language=pt|date=12 November 2005|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060301064957/http://asemana.cv/article.php3?id_article=13315|archive-date=1 March 2006}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070220012412/http://www.caboindex.com/claridade/ Claridiade at Cabo Index]
- [http://livroditera.blogspot.com/search/label/HENRIQUE%20TEIXEIRA%20DE%20SOUSA Henrique Teixeira de Sousa at Livro di Tera] {{in lang|pt}}
- [http://memoria-africa.ua.pt/search.aspx?q=AU%20'Sousa,%20Henrique%20Teixeira%20de' Henrique Teixeira de Sousa at Memória África] at the University of Algarve
- https://web.archive.org/web/20070927225554/http://www.fflch.usp.br/dlcv/posgraduacao/ecl/pdf/via04/via04_19.pdf
{{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Teixeira de Sousa Henrique}}
Category:Cape Verdean male writers
Category:Cape Verdean physicians
Category:People from Fogo, Cape Verde
Category:Presidents of municipalities in Cape Verde
Category:Cape Verdean expatriates in Portugal