Teodomiro Alberto Azevedo Leite de Vasconcelos (
Arcos de Valdevez
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, South Africa, 29 January 1997) was a
Mozambican journalist and writer. He was a member of
Associação dos Escritores Moçambicanos.
In 1945, he moved to Mozambique, where he took later the Mozambican citizenship. He spent his childhood in
Beira and studied Social Sciences in
Lourenço Marques
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. He worked for ''Rádio do Aeroclube da Beira'' and ''Rádio Clube de Moçambique'', and in 1972, he moved to Portugal because of his positions against the colonial regime. In Portugal, he worked for
Rádio Renascença.
He moved back to Mozambique after the independence of the country and worked as a journalist for the radio and several publications. Besides, he worked as a teacher and he was actor and political commentator. From 1981 to 1988, he was the administrator of
Rádio Moçambique.
[Biographie au]
Poets of Moçambique
(retrieved 29 December 2009)
Works
* ''Irmão do Universo'', Maputo,
Associação dos Escritores Moçambicanos, 1994
* ''Resumos, Insumos e Dores Emergentes'', Maputo, Associação dos Escritores Moçambicanos, 1997
* ''Pela Boca Morre o Peixe'', Maputo, Associação dos Amigos de Leite de Vasconcelos, 1999
* ''As Mortes de Lucas Tadeu'', Coimbra, Cena Lusófona, 2000 -
* ''A Nona Pata da Aranha'', Maputo, Promédia, 2004
In 2001,
Fernando Vendrell made a film based on his story ''O Gotejar da Luz''.
References and external links
Ma-Schamba.com
PoetsOfMozambique.com www.poetsofmozambique.com
1944 births
1997 deaths
People from Arcos de Valdevez
Mozambican writers
Portuguese emigrants to Mozambique
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