Odete Semedo
Appearance
Maria Odete da Costa Semedo (born Bissau, November 7, 1959) is a writer and educator from Guinea-Bissau. She works in both in Portuguese and Guinea Creole.[1]
Semedo studied languages and modern literature at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa,[2] and has served as president of the national UNESCO commission.[1] She is the founder of the journal Revista de Letras, Artes e Cultura Tcholona, and has published two books of poetry, Entre o Ser e o Amar and No Fundo do Canto.[3] She works in Bissau as an researcher in the fields of education and training at the Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisas. During her career she has also served as a government minister, first of National Education and later of Public Health.[1]
Works
- Entre o Ser e o Amar (1996)
- Histórias e passadas que ouvi contar (2003)
- No Fundo Do Canto (2007)
- Guiné-Bissau - Historia, Culturas, Sociedade e Literatura (2010)
- Literaturas da Guiné-Bissau - Cantando os escritos da história (2011)
References
- ^ a b c Maior, Carta. "Maria Odete da Costa Semedo, uma alma inquieta da Guiné Bissau". Retrieved 22 November 2016.
- ^ "Odete Costa Semedo - ancestralidade e a poética do desassossego". Retrieved 22 November 2016.
- ^ "WOMEN WRITING AFRICA". Retrieved 22 November 2016.
Categories:
- Bissau-Guinean people stubs
- West African writer stubs
- 1959 births
- Living people
- Bissau-Guinean poets
- Bissau-Guinean women writers
- Bissau-Guinean educators
- Government ministers of Guinea-Bissau
- Women poets
- Women educators
- Bissau-Guinean women in politics
- People from Bissau
- Universidade Nova de Lisboa alumni
- UNESCO people
- 20th-century poets
- 20th-century educators
- 20th-century women writers
- 21st-century poets
- 21st-century educators
- 21st-century women writers