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João Vário

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Born
  
7 June 1937 Mindelo, São Vicente, Cape Verde (
1937-06-07
)

Occupation
  
writer, neurosurgeon, scientist, professor

Died
  
7 September 2007, Mindelo, Cape Verde

João Vário (June 7, 1937 in Mindelo on São Vicente Island, Cape Verde – August 7, 2007 in Mindelo on Island, Cape Verde) was a Cape Verdean writer, neurosurgeon, scientist and professor. The name was a pseudonym of João Manuel Varela. Other aliases included Timóteo Tio Tiofe and G. T. Didial.

He studied medicine in the universities of Coimbra and Lisbon. He earned a doctorate from the University of Antwerp in Belgium. He was a researcher and professor of neuropathology and neurobiology. He returned to his native Mindelo where he lived until his death

He also wrote several poems. He influenced writers such as Saint-John Perse, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and Aimé Césaire.

Works

  • Exemplos 1-9 (Examples 1-9), volume that included General Example (Exemplo Geral), Relative Example (Exemplo Relativo), Dubious Example (Exemplo Dúbio) and Propriate Example (Exemplo Próprio)
  • Cadernos de Notcha, under the pseudonym Timóteo Tio Tiofe
  • Contos da Macaronésia (Tales From Macaronesia)
  • The State Impenitene On Fragility (O Estado impenitente da Fragilidade) under the pseudonym G. T. Didial

    • References

    João Vário Wikipedia
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