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Name
  
Joao Vario

Role
  
Writer

Died
  
August 7, 2007


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Joao Vario (June 7, 1937 in Mindelo on Sao 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 Joao Manuel Varela. Other aliases included Timoteo 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 Mndelo.

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

Works

  • Exemplos 1-9 (Examples 1-9), volume that included General Example (Exemplo Geral), Relative Example (Exemplo Relativo), Dubious Example (Exemplo Dubio) and Propriate Example (Exemplo Proprio)
  • Cadernos de Notcha, under the pseudonym Timoteo Tio Tiofe
  • Contos da Macaronesia (Tales From Macaronesia)
  • The State Impenitene On Fragility) O Estado impenitente da Fragilidade

    • Joao Vario

    References

    Joao Vario Wikipedia
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