António, Mário

António, Mário

▪ Angolan author
original name  Mário António Fernandes de Oliveira  
born April 5, 1934, Maquela do Zombo, Angola
died Feb. 7, 1989, Lisbon, Port.

      scholar, short-story writer, and poet whose works focus alternately on Angolan and Portuguese cultures. A poet of personal love and social protest in his early years, António in his later poems frequently presents verbal portraits of moods, places, and experiences.

      António completed his primary and secondary studies in Luanda. After spending 11 years as a public civil servant in the Angolan capital, he moved to Lisbon in 1965. He visited and lectured in the United States in 1979.

      António argued in his essays that Portuguese colonialism produced a creole, or mixed, culture in Angola in which European and African attitudes, values, and perspectives were shared by whites and blacks, as well as mulattos. He was a prolific contributor to journals and magazines in Angola and Portugal. His principal volumes of poetry include Amor: poesias (1960; “Love: Poems”), 100 Poemas (1963), and Rosto de Europa (1968; “Face of Europe”). By the mid-1980s he was the author of more than 20 works in Portuguese, including the poems, several collections of stories, cultural and literary essays on 19th- and 20th-century Angola, and translations.

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