Arménio Vieira
Arménio Adroaldo Vieira e Silva is a Cape Verdean writer, poet and journalist. He began his activity during the 1960s, collaborated in SELÓ, Boletim de Cabo Verde, Vértice review, Raízes, Ponto & Vírgula, Fragmentos, and others.
Poetry
Three of his poems— Lisboa, Quiproquo and Ser tigre— can be found on the CD Poesia de Cabo Verde e Sete Poemas de Sebastião da Gama by Afonso Dias.He won the Camões Prize in 2009 on the work O Poema, a Viagem, o Sonho.
His poems were celebrated by Mito Elias in Praia and Mindelo in 2011.
He started a series of "versions of books, poetic and miscellaneous notes" in June 2013 with O Brumário, later Derivações do Brumário and recently Fantasmas e Fantasias do Brumário in 2014.
Works
- 1971: Lisboa
- Around 1971 and 1972: Quiproquo and Ser tigre
- 1981: Poemas - África Editora - Colecção Cântico Geral - Lisbon
- 1990: O Eleito do Sol - Edição Sonacor EP - Grafedito - Praia
- 1998: Poemas - Ilhéu Editora - Mindelo
- 2006: MITOgrafias - Portuguese Cultural Center - Praia and Mindelo - novel
- 2009: O Poema, a Viagem, o Sonho - Caminho Publishers, Lisbon - poems
- 2013: O Brumário
- Derivações do Brumário, 2013
- Fantasmas e Fantasias do Brumário, 2014