Maria Celestina Fernandes’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth and life story

Intro Angolan writer
Is Writer
From Angola
Type Literature
Gender female
Birth

1945, Lubango, Angola

Age 76 years
Education
Agostinho Neto University

Maria Celestina Fernandes (born 12 September 1945) is an Angolan children’s author. She has also written poetry and short stories, and had earlier careers as a social worker and lawyer. She has won several awards.

Early life

Maria Celestina Fernandes was born in Lubango on 12 September 1945, the daughter of a civil servant father. She was educated at the Salvador Correia High School in Luanda.

Fernandes trained as a social worker at the Pio XII Institute of Social Work, and earned a bachelor’s degree in law from the Faculty of Law of Agostinho Neto University.

Career

In 1975, Fernandes started work at the National Bank of Angola, and remained there for more than two decades, rising from the head of the social department to deputy director of the legal department, and later retired.

Fernandes started writing in the late 1980s, initially in the Jornal de Angola and the Boletim da Organização da Mulher Angolana (OMA). Since 1990, she has published numerous books. In February 2016, she took part in a literature festival in Lisbon, Portugal, hosted by the country’s former President, Jorge Sampaio.

Fernandes is a member of the Angolan Writers’ Union and the Chá de Caxinde Association.

Selected publications

Her publications include:

  • A borboleta cor de ouro, UEA, 1990
  • Kalimba, INALD, 1992
  • A árvore dos gingongos, Edições Margem. 1993
  • A rainha tartaruga, INALD, 1997
  • A filha do soba, Nzila, 2001
  • O presente, Chá de Caxinde, 2002
  • A estrela que sorri, UEA, 2005
  • É preciso prevenir, UEA, 2006
  • As três aventureiras no parque e a joaninha, UEA, 2006
  • União Arco-Íris, INALD, 2006
  • Colectânea de contos, INALD, 2006
  • Retalhos da vida, INALD, 1992
  • Poemas, UEA, 1995
  • O meu canto, UEA, 2004
  • Os panos brancos, UEA, 2004
  • A Muxiluanda, Chá de Caxinde, 2008

Awards

Her awards include:

  • Prémio Literário Jardim do Livro Infantil, 2010
  • Prémio Caxinde do Conto Infantil, 2012
  • Prémio Excelência Literária (Troféu Corujão das Letras), 2015
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