Ovídio Martins Explained

Ovídio Martins
Birth Name:	Ovídio de Sousa Martins
Birth Date:	17 September 1928
Birth Place:	Mindelo, São Vicente, Cape Verde
Death Place:	Lisbon, Portugal
Occupation:	poet, journalist

Ovídio de Sousa Martins (September 17, 1928 in Mindelo, São Vicente  - April 29, 1999 in Lisbon, Portugal) was a famous Cape Verdean poet and journalist. He attended high school in his home country, he went to pursue studies in Portugal^[1] and did not achieve studies for health reasons.^[2] He was one of the founders of the Cultural Supplement Bulletin of Cape Verde in 1958.^[1] He lived in exile in the Netherlands due to his pro-independence activities in his native land and produced 100 poems there.

His poem Flagelados do vento leste and Comunhão can be found on the CD Poesia de Cabo Verde e Sete Poemas de Sebastião da Gama by Afonso Dias.^[3]

Works

Books

• Caminhada (Little Road), Lisbon (1962) – Poemas^[4]
• 100 Poemas - Gritarei, Berrarei, Matarei - Não vou para pasárgada (100 Poems), 1973 (Poems in Portuguese and in the creole of São Vicente)
• Tchutchinha, Lisbon (1962)^[4]

Poems

Poems in the creole of São Vicente:

• Liberdade, Nôs morte, Hora nô ta bá junte, Cantá nha pove, Cretcheu, Um spada na mon, Comparaçon, Consciénça, Um r’bêra pa mar, Dstine, Ma de canal, Pescador, Cantáme.

Poems in Portuguese:

• Mindelo, Terra dos meus amores, Caboverdianamente, Minha dor, Seca, Flagelados do vento-leste,^[5] Comunhão.

Bibliography

• Richard Lobban and Paul Khalil Saucier, "Ovidio Martins" in Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cape Verde, Lanham, Md; Toronto; Plymouth, UK, Scarecrow Press, 2007, p. 146

External links

• Victorian.fortunecity.com
• Secrel.com.br
• A Poesia de Ovídio Martins (Poems by Ovídio Martins)
• "Ovídio Martins, o poeta-profeta, faria 83 anos a 17 de Setembro" Expresso das Ilhas, September 16, 2011

Notes and References

1. Lobban and Saucier, p. 146
2. Web site: Na Morte de Ovídio Martins. The Death of Ovídio Martins. Poeta e militante Cabo-Verdiano.
3. Web site: Objectos do quotidiano de Cabo Verde mostram-se em Lisboa na "Casa Fernando Pessoa. A Semana. 25 June 2007. 26 January 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160203102920/http://www.asemana.publ.cv/spip.php?article24798. 3 February 2016. dead.
4. December 1978 . Biografski dodaci . Biographic appendices . sh . Republika: Časopis za kulturu i društvena pitanja (Izbor iz novije afričke književnosti) . XXXIV . 12 . 1424–1427 . .
5. Web site: Para Além do Desespero . 2006-02-11 . https://web.archive.org/web/20060321012802/http://www.secrel.com.br/jpoesia/oma01.html . 2006-03-21 . dead .