Perfil

Vera Duarte Lobo de Pina, Judge, poet and fiction writer, graduated in Law from the Classical University of Lisbon. Member of several Literary Academies in the country and abroad. She is a corresponding researcher at the Center for Humanities/CHAM at Universidade Nova de Lisboa and the Institute for African Women in Law, USA.

She was Minister of Education, Higher Education, President of the National Commission on Human Rights and Citizenship, Advisor to the President of the Republic and Judge of the Supreme Court of Justice. She was a member of organizations such as the North-South Center, Council of Europe, International Commission of Jurists, African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, Association of Women Jurists, International Federation of Women in Law.

She was awarded the Medal of the Order of the Volcano by the President of the Republic (2010); by the Cape Verde Government with the Medal of Cultural Merit (2005); received the North-South awards from the Council of Europe (1995); Tchicaya U Tam´si of African poetry (2001); Sonangol of Literature (2003); Femina Award for Notable Women (2020); Guerra Junqueiro Literary Prize, Lusophony (2021); CPLP Award of Honor and Glory to Merit (2023).

She published Tomorrow Dawn (poetry, 1993), The Archipelago of Passion (poetry, 2001); The Candidate (Fiction, 2004); Prayers and Supplications or the Songs of Despair (poetry, 2005); Building Utopia (Essays, 2007); Poetic exercises (poetry, 2010); The Word and the Days (Chronicles, 2013); The Matriarch – a story of miscegenation (novel, 2017); Of Laughter & Tears (Poetry, 2018); Reinvention of the sea (Poetic anthology 2018), Cape Verde a sentimental itinerary traveling through the islands of the sodad do sol and morabeza (prose, 2019); Oranges in the Sea (Bilingual poetic anthology, 2020), Twilight Tales-Metamorphoses (short stories, 2020), Disquiet & Lullabies Micro-stories (2021), Creole Venus (novel, 2021), Weaving Words in the Silence of Days (2022), José Clean Hands (2023).

She has collaborated on more than a hundred anthologies, magazines and newspapers. She has participated in and chaired national and international conferences.

She enjoys good critical acclaim and his works have been the subject of master’s and doctoral theses at national and foreign universities.