João Vário
João Vário was a Cape Verdean writer, neurosurgeon, scientist and professor. The name was a pseudonym of João Manuel Varela. Other aliases included Timóteo Tio Tiofe and G. T. Didial.
He studied medicine in the universities of Coimbra and Lisbon. He earned a doctorate from the University of Antwerp in Belgium. He was a researcher and professor of neuropathology and neurobiology. He returned to his native Mindelo where he lived until his death
He also wrote several poems. He influenced writers such as Saint-John Perse, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and Aimé Césaire.Works
- Exemplos 1-9, volume that included General Example, Relative Example, Dubious Example and Propriate Example
- Cadernos de Notcha, under the pseudonym Timóteo Tio Tiofe
- Contos da Macaronésia
- The State Impenitene On Fragility under the pseudonym G. T. Didial
