Augusto C. Adónis B. de Conrado

Augusto C. Adónis B. de Conrado, b.1904

Dossier MZ-0056 [part 2]

Augusto de Conrado was a largely-forgotten early 20th century Mozambican poet and prose writer who was rescued from oblivion in the 1980s, primarily by a series of four articles in Tempo and Portuguese Studies by Eduardo White, Manuel Lemos and Patrick Chabal. The last of these chronologically was jointly authored by Chabal and White – «Augusto de Conrado: an early Mozambican poet» Portuguese Studies vol.4 (1988). The others appeared in the Mozambican weekly Tempo and are referenced below.

Above: A poor quality portrait of the Mozambican writer Augusto de Conrado (born 1904) as a young man. [Photograph: Tempo].

Conrado’s reputation rested mainly on his poetry and his collaboration with the journal O Brado Africano, but Lemos’s two-part article in Tempo focuses on an early novella of less than fifty pages, published in 1931 under the title A Perjura, ou, A Mulher de Duplo Amor, about a married woman who takes an Italian lover.

MHN Resources

◊ 18 November 1984
Eduardo White. Augusto de Conrado: uma voz de sempre. Tempo [Maputo] no.736 (18 November 1984), p.46-50. In Portuguese. Click here to download a PDF file, size 1.4 Mb.
◊ 2 February 1986
Manuel Lemos. Augusto Conrado: A Perjura, ou, A Mulher de Duplo Amor. Tempo [Maputo] no.799 (2 February 1986), p.47-50. In Portuguese. Click here to download a PDF file, size 1.5 Mb.
◊ 9 February 1986
Manuel Lemos. Augusto Conrado: A Perjura, ou, A Mulher de Duplo Amor. Tempo [Maputo] no.800 (9 February 1986), p.47-50. In Portuguese. Click here to download a PDF file, size 463 kb.