Silvino Lopes Évora


Silvino Lopes Évora is a Cape Verdean writer, poet, journalist and a university professor.

Biography

He was born in the village of Chão Bom nearly south of Tarrafal, he later attended primary school and a preparatory cycle. He achieved secondary education at Liceu de Santa Catarina in Assomada. Later, he went to the city of Praia after he finished his twelfth year of school. He finished with student licenses.
Silvino Lopes Évora returned to Tarrafal, where he taught the Portuguese language at Escola Secundária do Tarrafal for two straight years. He took the "long way" which marked the Cape Verdean existence, bathed at the spirit of the sea in Tarrafal and moved on to the diaspora, first Coimbra, then Lisbon, Braga, Lisbon again and Santiago de Compostela.

Academic career

With a European PhD, he spent a semester of research at the University of Santiago de Compostela.
In 2016, he became professor and coordinator on the journalism course at the University of Cape Verde.

Awards and nominations