Alda Lara

Alda Lara
BornAlda Ferreira Pires Barreto de Lara Albuquerque
(1930-06-09)9 June 1930
Benguela, Portuguese Angola
Died30 January 1962(1962-01-30) (aged 31)
Cambambe, Portuguese Angola
OccupationMedical doctor, poet, journalist
CitizenshipPortuguese
Notable worksTempo de chuva
SpouseOrlando Albuquerque (writer)

Alda Ferreira Pires Barreto de Lara Albuquerque, known as Alda Lara (9 June 1930, Benguela, Angola – 30 January 1962, Cambambe, Angola) was a Portuguese-language Angolan poet.[1][2]

Early life and education

Alda Lara was born on 9 June 1930 in Benguela, Portuguese Angola. She came from a wealthy family and received a Christian education, which gave her a spirit of liberalism according to one commentator. Her brother was the noted poet Ernesto Lara Filho. Lara attended a women's school in Sá da Bandeira (now Lubango) before moving to Portugal to finish her secondary schooling.[3] She attended University of Lisbon and resided at the Casa dos Estudantes do Império (House of the Students of the Empire). She had an active student life and began her writing career by publishing poetry in the literary journal Mensagem, a publication specifically for Africans. Lara later attended the University of Coimbra and earned a degree in medicine.[4]

Career

Lara wrote for several newspapers and magazines such as the Jornal de Benguela, the Jornal de Angola, and the ABC e Ciência.[3] She married the Mozambican-Portuguese writer Orlando Albuquerque and gave birth to four children. After living in Portugal for 13 years, Lara moved back to Angola in 1961.[4]

Death and legacy

She died on 30 January 1962 in Cambambe.[1]

Her husband set about publishing her collected works after her death, including Poemas in 1966 and Tempo de Chuva in 1973. Lara's poems and short stories mostly deal with themes of motherhood and children as well as liberty and justice.[4] Much of her poetry reflect a dissatisfaction with the colonial status quo.[1]

The Alda Lara Prize (in Portuguese, Prémio Alda Lara) was established in her honour by the city of Lubango.[4] Paulo de Carvalho, a famed Portuguese singer, who has had a strong artistic career, recorded "Preludio/Mãe Negra", a poem written by Alda Lara.[5] Movimento, the second album of Aline Frazão released in 2013, features a poem by Lara set to music.[6]

Books (posthumous)

  • Poemas (1966)
  • Tempo da Chuva (1973)
  • Poesia (1979)
  • Poemas (1984) (her collected poems)

References

  1. ^ a b c "Alda Lara". Nação Ovimbundu.org (in Portuguese). Retrieved 6 November 2016.
  2. ^ Margaret Busby (ed.), Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent from the Ancient Egyptian to the Present, London: Jonathan Cape, 1992; Vintage, 1993.
  3. ^ a b "Biografia de Alda Lara". Lusophonia Poetica (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 7 November 2016. Retrieved 6 November 2016.
  4. ^ a b c d Sheldon, Kathleen (2016). Historical Dictionary of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa (2nd. ed.). Rowman & Littlefield. p. 155. ISBN 978-1442262935.
  5. ^ "Paulo de Carvalho" (PDF). Casa da Musica (in Portuguese). Retrieved 6 November 2016.
  6. ^ Thaís Folgosi (20 December 2014). "Aline Frazão: 'a música brasileira é autossuficiente'". Brasileiros (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 2016-10-05. Retrieved 6 November 2016.

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