(1931-12-01) 1 December 1931 (age 92) Silves, Portugal
Occupation
Poet
Language
Portuguese
Genre
Poetry
Amélia Veiga, also known as Amélia Maria Ramos Veiga Silva (born 1931) is a Portuguese-born Angolan poet and teacher.
Amélia Veiga was born 1 December, 1931[1][2][3][4] in Silves, Portugal. In 1951 she moved to Angola, where she taught in Sá da Bandeira and began publishing poetry. She was awarded the Fernando Pessoa Prize by the Camara Municipality of Sá da Bandeira for her Poemas (1963).
Veiga also worked at the Centre for Higher Education on Policies Studies (CIPES) in Matosinhos, Portugal for several years.
Veiga's poem 'Angola', figuring the speaker's country as a surrogate mother, has frequently been anthologised.[1][2]
Works
Destinos, 1961
Poemas, 1963
Libertação, 1974
References
^ abChipasula, Stella; Chipasula, Frank Mkalawile (1995). The Heinemann Book of African Women's Poetry. Pearson Education. pp. 155, 226. ISBN978-0-435-90680-1. "Amélia Veiga (Amélia Maria Ramos Veiga Silva) (Angola) b. 1 December 1931 at Silves, Portugal. In 1951 she emigrated to Angola where she taught in the commercial institutes of Sá da Bandeira..."