Bernardina Oliveira ( Dina Salústio)
- poesia
- literatura
Dina Salústio (pseudonym of Bernardina Oliveira), Cape Verdean poet and prose writer, born in 1941, in Santo Antão, Cape Verde.
Alongside her work as a writer, she was a teacher, social worker and journalist in Cape Verde, as well as in Portugal and Angola. She also directed a radio program dedicated to educational issues and was a radio producer. She also worked for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cape Verde. Dina Salústio was one of the founders of the Association of Cape Verdean Writers, as well as of several literary publications.
Author of a well-known study on violence against women, opportunely edited in book form, as well as a children's literature book written in partnership with Marilene Pereira, Dina Salústio is also the author of the collection of short stories/stories/chronicles 'Mornas eram as Noites' (the celebrated and much re-edited book in which she critiques, in a poetic and merciless way, the Cape Verdean society and the actuality of its social ills, with special focus on the problems of social marginality, misery and poverty, as well as issues related to women, which earned it the Award for Children's Literature of Cape Verde. She also published the novel 'A louca de Serrano' (1998). In addition to these writings, Dina Salústio is also the creator of poems and other texts scattered throughout the magazines "Mudjer", "Ponto & Vírgula", "Fragmentos", "Fragata", the newspaper "A Semana" and the anthology "Mirabilis-de-Veias ao Sol".
Dina Salústio (pseudonym of Bernardina Oliveira), Cape Verdean poet and prose writer, born in 1941, in Santo Antão, Cape Verde.
Alongside her work as a writer, she was a teacher, social worker and journalist in Cape Verde, as well as in Portugal and Angola. She also directed a radio program dedicated to educational issues and was a radio producer. She also worked for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cape Verde. Dina Salústio was one of the founders of the Association of Cape Verdean Writers, as well as of several literary publications.
Author of a well-known study on violence against women, opportunely edited in book form, as well as a children's literature book written in partnership with Marilene Pereira, Dina Salústio is also the author of the collection of short stories/stories/chronicles 'Mornas eram as Noites' (the celebrated and much re-edited book in which she critiques, in a poetic and merciless way, the Cape Verdean society and the actuality of its social ills, with special focus on the problems of social marginality, misery and poverty, as well as issues related to women, which earned it the Award for Children's Literature of Cape Verde. She also published the novel 'A louca de Serrano' (1998). In addition to these writings, Dina Salústio is also the creator of poems and other texts scattered throughout the magazines "Mudjer", "Ponto & Vírgula", "Fragmentos", "Fragata", the newspaper "A Semana" and the anthology "Mirabilis-de-Veias ao Sol".
