Silvino Lopes Évora
Silvino Lopes Évora is a Cape Verdean writer, poet, journalist and a university professor. Biography. He was born in the village of Chão Bom nearly south of Tarrafal, he later attended primary school and a preparatory cycle. He achieved secondary education at Liceu de Santa Catarina in Assomada. Later, he went to the city of Praia after he finished his twelfth year of school. He finished with student licenses. Silvino Lopes Évora returned to Tarrafal, where he taught the Portuguese language at Escola Secundária do Tarrafal (Tarrafal Secondary School) for two straight years. He took the "long  way" which marked the Cape Verdean existence, bathed at the spirit of the sea in Tarrafal and moved on to the diaspora, first Coimbra, then Lisbon, Braga, Lisbon again and Santiago de Compostela. Academic career. With a European PhD, he spent a semester of research at the University of Santiago de Compostela. In 2016, he became professor and coordinator on the journalism course at the University of Cape Verde. Bibliography. In 2009, he launched his first poet work, "Rimas no Deserto - Poemas Inéditos". Subsequently, he published the third anthology of Lusophony Poets. In 2010, he started the second poetry book  called "O Passaporte da Diáspora" ("The Passport to the Diaspora"). He launched a scientific field in 2011 in association with MinervaCoimbra "Concentração dos Media e Liberdade de Imprensa" ("Concentration on the Media on the Freedom of Press"). He published an anthology of poets from Tarrafal, his hometown in 2014 and recently published poetic writings of Cape Verdeans in 2015.