Cardoso, Boaventura, 1944-

LC control no.	n 81051170
Descriptive conventions	rda
LC classification	PQ9929.2.C3
Personal name heading	Cardoso, Boaventura, 1944- *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Associated country	Angola
Birth date	1944-07-26
Place of birth	Luanda (Luanda, Angola)
Affiliation	Instituto Nacional do Livro e do Disco (Angola) Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Conselho Nacional de Cultura (Angola) International Fund for Agricultural Development Pontificia Università San Tommaso d'Aquino-Angelicum (Rome, Italy) Union of Angolan Writers (Organization)
Profession or occupation	Politicians Poets Novelists Ambassadors
Found in	His Dizanga dia muenhu, 1977: t.p. (Boaventura Cardoso) p. 100 (b. in Luanda, 7/26/44) Dictionary of African Biography, accessed January 12, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Cardoso, Boaventura; politician, poet, fiction writer, ambassador; born 26 July 1944 in Luanda, Angola; received degree in social sciences from Pontificia Università San Tommaso d'Aquino-Angelicum, Rome; was an editorial board member of Review Angola, published by the National African League; became a co-founder of Union of Angolan Writers; was a director of Instituto Nacional do Livro e do Disco (INALD); was a ppointed Minister of Information (1975) and ambassador of Angola to France, Malta, and Italy; represented Angola in the Food and Agriculture Organization (UN) and in the International Fund for Agricultural Development (UN); was appointed Minister of Culture, Angola (2003); published his novel Mãe, Materno Mar (2001), for which he won Prémio Nacional de Cultura e Arte award for literature) The theme of urban violence in three Lusophone novelist, 2017: ECIP title page (Boaventura Cardoso)