Ovídio Martins

Ovídio Martins
Born	Ovídio de Sousa Martins (1928-09-17)17 September 1928 Mindelo, São Vicente, Cape Verde
Died	29 April 1999(1999-04-29) (aged 70) Lisbon, Portugal
Occupation(s)	poet, journalist

Ovídio de Sousa Martins (September 17, 1928 in Mindelo, São Vicente – April 29, 1999 in Lisbon, Portugal) was a famous Cape Verdean poet and journalist. He attended high school in his home country, he went to pursue studies in Portugal^[1] and did not achieve studies for health reasons.^[2] He was one of the founders of the Cultural Supplement Bulletin of Cape Verde in 1958.^[1] He lived in exile in the Netherlands due to his pro-independence activities in his native land and produced 100 poems there.

His poem Flagelados do vento leste and Comunhão can be found on the CD Poesia de Cabo Verde e Sete Poemas de Sebastião da Gama by Afonso Dias.^[3]

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Works

Books

Caminhada (Little Road), Lisbon (1962) – Poemas^[4]
100 Poemas - Gritarei, Berrarei, Matarei - Não vou para pasárgada (100 Poems), 1973 (Poems in Portuguese and in the creole of São Vicente)
Tchutchinha, Lisbon (1962)^[4]

Poems

Poems in the creole of São Vicente:

Liberdade, Nôs morte, Hora nô ta bá junte, Cantá nha pove, Cretcheu, Um spada na mon, Comparaçon, Consciénça, Um r’bêra pa mar, Dstine, Ma de canal, Pescador, Cantáme.

Poems in Portuguese:

Mindelo, Terra dos meus amores, Caboverdianamente, Minha dor, Seca, Flagelados do vento-leste,^[5] Comunhão.

Notes

^ ^a ^b Lobban and Saucier, p. 146
^ "Na Morte de Ovídio Martins" [The Death of Ovídio Martins] (PDF). Poeta e militante Cabo-Verdiano.
^ "Objectos do quotidiano de Cabo Verde mostram-se em Lisboa na "Casa Fernando Pessoa". A Semana. 25 June 2007. Archived from the original on 3 February 2016. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
^ ^a ^b "Biografski dodaci" [Biographic appendices]. Republika: Časopis za kulturu i društvena pitanja (Izbor iz novije afričke književnosti) (in Serbo-Croatian). XXXIV (12). Zagreb, SR Croatia: 1424–1427. December 1978.
^ "Para Além do Desespero". Archived from the original on 2006-03-21. Retrieved 2006-02-11.

Bibliography

Richard Lobban and Paul Khalil Saucier, "Ovidio Martins" in Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cape Verde, Lanham, Md; Toronto; Plymouth, UK, Scarecrow Press, 2007, p. 146 ISBN 9780810849068