Luísa Queirós (born in

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) is a Portuguese artist.Luísa Queirós's work in overview
/ref> She lived in Lisbon until 1975 when she moved to

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, Cape Verde and lives with her husband

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whom she met at the School of Fine Arts, Lisbon. Six months before Cape Verde became independent, she met Manuel Figueira in Mindelo. Later on, she instrumented the revitalization of Cape Verdean handcraft works. Already in Portugal and also in Mindelo, she worked for ten years as a teacher in drawing, painting and weaving. In addition, she also wrote illustrated children's works, for which she was honored with a

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Prize. She also wrote a book titled "Saaraci, o ultimo Gafanhoto do deserto" ("Saaraci, the Last Grasshopper in the Desert") written in 1998 in Lisbon and was awarded the Children's Literature Prize by the

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. Since 1989, several of her artwork were displayed in Cape Verde, Brussels, Lisbon, Seville, Paris, Boston and

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External links

Luísa Queirós's work in overview at Art Africa
at the

Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Artists from Lisbon 20th-century Portuguese painters 21st-century Portuguese painters 21st-century Portuguese women artists 20th-century Portuguese women painters 21st-century women painters {{CapeVerde-bio-stub