Francisco Borja da Costa
Francisco Borja da Costa (October 14, 1946 – December 8, 1975) was an East Timorese poet and the writer of "Pátria", the national anthem of East Timor.
Francisco Borja da Costa
- Born
- 14 October 1946
- Birthplace
- Manatuto, Portuguese Timor
- Died
- 8 December 1975
- Place of death
- Dili, East Timor
- Occupation
- Poet
- Nationality
- Timor-Leste
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Francisco Borja da Costa (October 14, 1946 – December 8, 1975) was an East Timorese poet and the writer of "Pátria", the national anthem of East Timor.
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• Born — 14 October 1946 • Birthplace — Manatuto, Portuguese Timor • Died — 8 December 1975 • Place of death — Dili, East Timor • Death Cause — Invasion by Indonesia • Occupation — Poet • Notable Works — "Pátria" and "Um Minuto de Silêncio"
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Born in October 1946, he wrote the majority of his work in Tetum. Borja da Costa was executed by Indonesian forces on December 8, 1975, the day after the beginning of the Indonesian invasion of East Timor. The national anthem's composer, Afonso Redentor Araujo, was also executed by the Indonesians four years later. Aside from the East Timorese national anthem, his most famous known work may be the poem "Um Minuto de Silêncio" ("A Minute of Silence").
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1946
Francisco Borja da Costa was born in 1946 at Manatuto Municipality.
1975
Francisco Borja da Costa died in 1975 at Dili.
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Manatuto Municipality.
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- “Francisco Borja da Costa”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- 1.Standard Tetum-English Dictionary.
- 2.National Anthem.
- 3.“Populist Catholics”: Fretilin 1975.
- 4.Rhetoric and the Decolonization and Recolonization of East Timor.
- 5.FRETILIN Popular Education 1973–1978 and its Relevance to Timor-Leste Today.
- 6.Borja da Costa, um poeta, uma Fundação. Quando florescer o arroz.
- 7.FRETILIN Popular Education 1973–1978 and its Relevance to Timor-Leste Today.
- 8.Revolutionary Poems in the Struggle Against Colonialism – Timorese Nationalist Verse.
- 9.“É preciso gritar bem alto”: resistência, nacionalismo e libertação timorense em Francisco Borja da Costa. 26. 10.12957/matraga.2019.37422.
- 10.Declaration of Independence, 28 November 1975.
- 11.Timor-Leste.
- 12.Pátria! Pátria!.
- 13.East Timor: Balibo Inquiry.
- 14.Viúva do poeta Borja da Costa recorda a clandestinidade e a tortura.
- 15.Família de Borja da Costa recolhe restos mortais do poeta.
- 16.Standard Tetum-English Dictionary.
- 17.Resolução do Governo No. 30/2014 de 29 de Outubro: Dia Nacional da Cultura.
- 18.Die Kraft der Musik: Widerstand und Poesie.
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