Dina Salústio Explained

Bernardina Oliveira
Pseudonym:Dina Salústio
Birth Date:1941
Occupation:Novelist, journalist, short story writer, poet
Citizenship:Cabo Verde
Notable Works:The Madwoman of Serrano
Awards:Rosalía de Castro Award

Dina Salústio (born 1941) is a Cape Verdean novelist, who is the first woman from the country to publish a novel, and the first writer from the country to have a novel translated to English.

Biography

Dina Salústio is the pseudonym of Bernardina Oliveira, who was born in 1941 in Santo Antão.[1] After training as a social worker, she worked for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She has also worked in Portugal and Angola as a journalist, social worker and teacher.[2]

A prominent literary activist in Cabo Verde, she co-founded the Associação Escritores Cabo-Verdianos,[3] as well as two magazines, Mudjer and Ponto e Vírgula. Her novel A Louca de Serrano was the first novel to be published by a Cabo Verdean woman.[4] [5] Its translation, The Madwoman of Serrano by Jethro Soutar, is the first English translation of a novel from Cabo Verde.

Awards

In 2020, the English translation of A Louca de Serrano was short-listed for The Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize. In 2016, she was presented with a Rosalía de Castro Award for lifetime achievement by PEN Galicia (es).[6] [7] [8] In 1994 she was awarded the national prize for children's literature.[9]

Reception

Salústio's works, both creative and non-fiction, address issues relating to women's rights and Cabo Verdean society and centring female perspectives.[10] [11] Her works are considered an important contribution to postcolonial literature of Cabo Verde.[12] She is also viewed as a writer who counters the masculine perspectives that can be prevalent in African literature.[13]

Selected works

Novels

Short stories

Non-fiction

References

  1. Web site: Biografia de Dina Salustio . 2022-03-25 . www.ikuska.com.
  2. Web site: The Madwoman of Serrano by Dina Salústio : Our Books :: Dedalus Books, Publishers of Literary Fiction . 2022-03-25 . www.dedalusbooks.com.
  3. Book: Lima-Neves . Terza A. Silva . Cabo Verdean Women Writing Remembrance, Resistance, and Revolution: Kriolas Poderozas . Pilgrim . Aminah N. . 2021-05-11 . Rowman & Littlefield . 978-1-7936-3490-0 . en.
  4. Web site: The Madwoman of Serrano by Dina Salústio : Our Books :: Dedalus Books, Publishers of Literary Fiction . 2022-03-25 . www.dedalusbooks.com.
  5. Web site: Soutar . Jethro . 19 July 2017 . Translating Dina Salústio, Cape Verde's First Female Novelist . Brittle Paper.
  6. Web site: 2016-09-10 . Grandes, Dina Salústio, Alex Susanna e Landa gañan os premios Rosalía de Castro . 2022-03-25 . La Voz de Galicia . es.
  7. Web site: Dina Salústio : Our Authors & Translators :: Dedalus Books, Publishers of Literary Fiction . 2022-03-25 . www.dedalusbooks.com.
  8. Web site: The Madwoman of Serrano . 2022-03-25 . English Pen . en-GB.
  9. Web site: Infopédia . Dina Salústio - Infopédia . 2022-03-25 . Infopédia - Porto Editora . pt.
  10. Web site: Bernardina Oliveira (Dina Salústio) / Personalidades / Identidade / Início - CABO VERDE info . 2022-03-25 . www.caboverde-info.com.
  11. Book: Arenas, Fernando . Lusophone Africa: Beyond Independence . 2011 . U of Minnesota Press . 978-0-8166-6983-7 . en.
  12. Santos . Olímpia Maria dos . 2018-09-28 . DINA SALÚSTIO: Mulher, Caboverdiana, Escritora . Episteme Transversalis . pt . 9 . 2 . 2236-2649.
  13. Book: George, Olakunle . A Companion to African Literatures . 2021-03-22 . John Wiley & Sons . 978-1-119-05817-5 . en.
  14. Book: Salústio, Dina . A louca de Serrano . 1998 . Edições Spleen . pt.
  15. Book: Salústio, Dina . The Madwoman of Serrano . 2020-04-20 . SCB Distributors . 978-1-912868-31-5 . en.
  16. Book: Salústio, Dina . Filhas do vento . 2009 . Instituto da Biblioteca Nacional e do Livro . pt.
  17. Book: Salústio, Dina . Veromar . 2019 . Rosa de Porcelana Editora . 978-989-8961-06-8 . pt.
  18. Book: Salústio, Dina . Mornas eram as noites . 1994 . Instituto Caboverdiano do Livro e do Disco . pt-BR.
  19. Book: Salústio, Dina . Filhos de deus: contos e monólogos . 2018 . Biblioteca Nacional de Cabo Verde . pt.
  20. Book: Salústio, Dina . Violência contra as mulheres . 1999 . Instituto da Condição Feminina . pt.

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