Tomé Varela Da Silva

Biography

Tomé Varela da Silva was born in 1948 in São Jorge dos Órgãos, Santiago, Cape Verde. A poet, writer, scholar, philosopher, and anthropologist, he explored Cape Verde’s oral tradition and musical heritage, advocating for the use of Cape Verdean Creole in literature. He authored several influential poems and stories, with his most notable works published in the 1980s and 1990s. His seminal four-part series, Na Bóka Noti, documented the evolution of the Cape Verdean language over three decades. The first volume was written using the alphabet proposed at the Mindelo Colloquium in 1979, while the fourth appeared in Alfabétu Kauberdianu, the official orthography adopted by the government in 2009. Varela da Silva is widely regarded as one of the most important Cape Verdean poets of his time.

Birth Date

1948-01-01

Place of Birth

Country of Nationality

Cape Verde

Speeches, Lectures, Interviews, Performances / Critical Articles, Media

Da Silva, Tomé Varela. "Tomé Varela da Silva." _Wikipedia_, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%C3%A9\_Varela\_da\_Silva. Accessed 29 2024.

Da Silva, Tomé Varela. "Tomé Varela da Silva." https://www-rtc-cv.translate.goog/noticia/noticia-details/tome-varela-da-silva-lanca-ldquo-amor-e-kiriason-rdquo-264?\_x\_tr\_sl=pt&\_x\_tr\_tl=en&\_x\_tr\_hl=en&\_x\_tr\_pto=sc#!. Accessed 29 2024.

Da Silva, Tomé Varela. "Tomé Varela da Silva." _Praiafm_, https://praiafm.biz/arquivos/25034. Accessed 29 2024.

Sources

Silva, Tomé Varela da. "The Alphabet for Cape Verdean Writing Looked Like a Forest of Accents." Islands Express, 10 May 2010, arquivo.pt/wayback/20100707191557/http:/www.expressodasilhas.sapo.cv/pt/noticias/go/tome-varela-da-silva---o-alfabeto-para-a-escrita-do-cabo-verdiano-parecia-uma-floresta-de-acentos. Accessed 22 July 2022.

"Silva, T. V. da (Tomé Varela da)." WorldCat, www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n88660448/. Accessed 22 July 2022.

"Tomé Varela da Silva." Funana, http://funana.org/cluster.php?page=untitled-tome-varela-da-silva. Accessed 29 October 2024.

"Tomé Varela da Silva." Praiafm, https://praiafm.biz/arquivos/25034. Accessed 29 October 2024.

"Tomé Varela da Silva." RTC-CV, https://www-rtc-cv.translate.goog/noticia/noticia-details/tome-varela-da-silva-lanca-ldquo-amor-e-kiriason-rdquo-264?_x_tr_sl=pt&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc#!. Accessed 29 October 2024.

"Tomé Varela da Silva." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 7 January 2020, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%C3%A9_Varela_da_Silva. Accessed 22 July 2022.