Luís Carlos Patraquim’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth and life story

Intro Mozambican writer
Is Journalist
Writer
From Mozambique
Type Journalism
Literature
Gender male
Birth

26 March 1953, Maputo

Age 67 years
Star sign Aries

Luís Carlos Patraquim (born on 26 March 1953 in Maputo) is a Mozambican poet, playwright and journalist.
He moved to Sweden as a refugee in 1973. In 1975, he moved back to Mozambique, where he worked for A Tribuna magazine, the Agência de Informação de Moçambique (AIM), the Instituto Nacional de Cinema de Moçambique (INC) and Tempo magazine.
Patraquim lives in Portugal since 1986.

Works

  • Monção. Lisboa e Maputo. Edições 70 e Instituto Nacional do Livro e do Disco, 1980
  • A inadiável viagem. Maputo, Associação dos Escritores Moçambicanos, 1985
  • Vinte e tal novas formulações e uma elegia carnívora. Lisboa, ALAC, 1992.
Prefácio de Ana Mafalda Leite
  • Mariscando luas. Lisboa, Vega, 1992
Com Chichorro (ilustrações) e Ana Mafalda Leite
  • Lidemburgo blues. Lisboa, Editorial Caminho, 1997
  • O osso côncavo e outros poemas (1980–2004). Lisboa, Editorial Caminho, 2005
Antologia de poemas dos livros anteriores e poemas novos
Com um texto de Ana Mafalda Leite: O que sou de sobrepostas vozes
  • Pneuma Lisboa, Editorial Caminho, 2009
  • A Canção de Zefanías Sforza (romance) Porto, Porto Editora, 2010
  • Antologia Poética. Belo Horizonte, Editora UFMG, 2011. Coleção Poetas de Moçambique
Antologia de poemas dos livros anteriores e poemas novos.
Com posfácio de Cíntia Machado de Campos Almeida : Incursões de um poeta ‘nas veias em fúria da memória’

Theatre

  • Karingana
  • Vim-te buscar
  • D’abalada
  • Tremores íntimos anónimos (with António Cabrita)

Awards

  • Prémio Nacional de Poesia de Moçambique (1995)
  • Mexia, Pedro. Novas formulações moçambicanas
  • Saúte, Nelson; Sopa, António (compiladores). A Ilha de Moçambique pela voz dos poetas
  • (Portuguese) 3=Alguns poemas
  • Lusofonia.com.sapo.pt
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