Arménio Adroaldo Vieira e Silva (; born January 29, 1941) is a Cape Verdean writer, poet and journalist. He began his activity during the 1960s, collaborated in SELÓ, Boletim de Cabo Verde, Vértice (Coimbra) review, Raízes, Ponto & Vírgula, Fragmentos, Sopinha de Alfabeto and others.
Three of his poems— Lisboa (1971), Quiproquo and Ser tigre— can be found on the CD Poesia de Cabo Verde e Sete Poemas de Sebastião da Gama by Afonso Dias.
He won the Camões Prize in 2009 on the work O Poema, a Viagem, o Sonho.
His poems were celebrated by Mito Elias (also simply as Mito) in Praia and Mindelo in 2011.
He started a series of "versions of books, poetic and miscellaneous notes" in June 2013 with O Brumário, later Derivações do Brumário and recently Fantasmas e Fantasias do Brumário in 2014.
Works
1971: Lisboa (Lisbon) Around 1971 and 1972: Quiproquo and Ser tigre 1981: Poemas - África Editora - Colecção Cântico Geral - Lisbon 1990: O Eleito do Sol - Edição Sonacor EP - Grafedito - Praia 1998: Poemas (reedited) - Ilhéu Editora - Mindelo 2006: MITOgrafias - Portuguese Cultural Center - Praia and Mindelo - novel 2009: O Poema, a Viagem, o Sonho - Caminho Publishers, Lisbon - poems 2013: O Brumário Derivações do Brumário, 2013 Fantasmas e Fantasias do Brumário, 2014
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External links
Vozes Poéticas da Lusofonia (Lusophony Poetic Voices) Arménio Vieira – liberdade e coerência na poesia do poeta-gato cabo-verdiano (África e Africanidades) Brazil, 2nd year, no. 6, August 2009