O Testamento do Sr. Napumoceno da Silva Araújo

Prémio Camões · 2018 · Winner

CaminhoJanuary 1, 1989Literary Fiction

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Prémio Camões	2018	Winner

About This Book

A comedy about the posthumous will of a Cape Verdean merchant that reveals the scandalous secrets of his life and the society he inhabited, establishing Almeida as the defining voice of Cape Verdean fiction.

About the Author

Germano AlmeidaCV

Germano Almeida is a Cape Verdean novelist and lawyer born in 1945 in Mindelo, São Vicente. He is the most celebrated Cape Verdean writer and one of the most important Lusophone African voices in world literature. He worked for many years as a lawyer while writing fiction that draws on Cape Verdean oral tradition, humor, and the society of the islands. Read more →