page_title: Baltasar Lopes da Silva
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Baltasar Lopes da Silva / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: Baltasar Lopes da Silva avenue in Mindelo town, São Vicente island, Cape Verde
context_page_description: Baltasar Lopes da Silva was a writer, poet and linguist from Cape Verde, who wrote in both Portuguese and Cape Verdean Creole. With Manuel Lopes and Jorge Barbosa, he was the founder of Claridade. In 1947 he published Chiquinho, considered the greatest Cape Verdean novel and O dialecto crioulo de Cabo Verde which describes different dialects of creoles of Cape Verde. He sometimes wrote under the pseudonym Osvaldo Alcântara.
  Ressaca, his work of poems can be found on the CD Poesia de Cabo Verde e Sete Poemas de Sebastião da Gama by Afonso Dias.
context_section_description: A street named after the writer (Avenida Baltasar Lopes da Silva) is located in the north of Mindelo slightly northeast of the city center.
  He was featured on a Cape Verdean $500 escudo note which was issued between 1992 and 2000.  On the back is Ilhéu dos Passaros and its ships.
caption: Avenida Baltar Lopes da Silva, an avenue named after the writer
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