Baltasar Lopes da Silva (Caleijão, São Nicolau, 23 April1907 - São Vicente, 28 May1989) was a writer, poet and linguist from Cape Verde, who wrote both in Portuguese and Creole. São Nicolau is one of the Barlavento islands of Cape Verde. ... April 23 is the 113th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (114th in leap years). ... 1907 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... For other uses, see São Vicente (disambiguation) São Vicente (Crioulo: Sanvicente or Sanvcênt) is one of the Barlaventos islands of the Cape Verde. ... May 28 is the 148th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (149th in leap years). ... 1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Some of his poetry was written under the pseudonym of Osvaldo Alcântara. His most famous work is Chiquinho (1947). He also wrote a description of the Cape Verde creoles. The term Creole is used with different meanings in different contexts, which can generate confusion. ...
Lopes is a Portuguese film director, based in Lisbon, whose recent work, O Fio do Horizonte (The Edge of the Horizon), was shown in Vienna during the film festival I attended there in October, when this interview was recorded.
Baltasar, who is 26, returns from battle minus a left hand; he meets Blimunda who is 19, and whose mother is condemned for heresy, publicly flogged, and exiled to Angola for eight years.
Baltasar and Blimunda are still flying high: a few years ago the Italian composer Azio Corghi turned Saramago's monumental work into an opera, which goes by the title of Blimunda.
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