Amélia Veiga

Amélia Veiga, also known as Amélia Maria Ramos Veiga Silva (born 1931) is a Portuguese-born Angolan poet and teacher.

Amélia Veiga
Born	(1931-12-01) 1 December 1931 (age 92) Silves, Portugal
Occupation	Poet
Language	Portuguese
Genre	Poetry

Amélia Veiga was born 1 December, 1931^[1][2][3][4] in Silves, Portugal. In 1951 she moved to Angola, where she taught in Sá da Bandeira and began publishing poetry. She was awarded the Fernando Pessoa Prize by the Camara Municipality of Sá da Bandeira for her Poemas (1963).

Veiga also worked at the Centre for Higher Education on Policies Studies (CIPES) in Matosinhos, Portugal for several years.

Veiga's poem 'Angola', figuring the speaker's country as a surrogate mother, has frequently been anthologised.^[1][2]

Works

• Destinos, 1961
• Poemas, 1963
• Libertação, 1974

References

1. Chipasula, Stella; Chipasula, Frank Mkalawile (1995). The Heinemann Book of African Women's Poetry. Pearson Education. pp. 155, 226. ISBN 978-0-435-90680-1. "Amélia Veiga (Amélia Maria Ramos Veiga Silva) (Angola) b. 1 December 1931 at Silves, Portugal. In 1951 she emigrated to Angola where she taught in the commercial institutes of Sá da Bandeira..."
2. Beier, Ulli (1989). The Penguin book of modern African poetry. Penguin Group.; Ulli Beier and Gerald Moore, The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry, 1999
3. Stewart, Julia (2012-10-02). Stewart's Quotable African Women. Penguin Random House South Africa. ISBN 978-0-14-302711-9.
4. Fonseca, Ana Sofia (2009). Angola, terra prometida: a vida que os portugueses deixaram (in Brazilian Portuguese). Esfera dos Livros. p. 297. ISBN 978-989-626-161-0.