page_title: Jorge Barbosa
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Jorge Barbosa / Biography
caption_attribution_description: Português: Biblioteca Municipal Jorge Barbosa, do município da Ilha do Sal.
context_page_description: Jorge Vera-Cruz Barbosa was a Cape Verdean poet and writer. He collaborated in various reviews and Portuguese and Cape Verdean journals. The publication of his poetry anthology Arquipélago in 1935 marked the beginning of Cape Verdean poetry. He was, along with Baltazar Lopes da Silva and Manuel Lopes, one of the three founders of the literary journal Claridade in 1936, which marked the beginning of modern Cape Verdean literature.
context_section_description: Jorge Barbosa was born in the city of Praia, on the island of Santiago, Portuguese Cape Verde archipelago (then a territory of Portugal). Soon after, he moved to the island of São Vicente, where he spent his early years on — excluding his years of study in Lisbon. He published his first work titled Arquipélago (Archipelago) in 1935 which opened its doors to modern Cape Verdean literature and later demonstrated a complete change in rhetoric and thematic poetry in Cape Verde, it formed one of the elements that led to the creation of the Claridade review a year after the publication of the book.  His second work was Ambiente (Ambient) which was also called The Circle in 1941.  His third book was a notebook titled Caderno de um Ilhéu published in 1955 which later won the Camilo Pessanha Award.  He also published poems include Meio Milémiio, Júbilo (Jubilee), Panfletário (Booklet) and "Prelúdio" ("Prelude"). He then lived for many years on the island of Sal, working as a civil servant of the customhouse. He died in Cova da Piedade, in Lisbon, Portugal.
caption: Jorge Barbosa Municipal Library in Espargos in the island of Sal
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