Gisela Casimiro
Gisela Casimiro (Guinea Bissau, 1984) is a Portuguese writer, activist and artist.
Gisela Casimiro
- Name
- Gisela Casimiro
- Born
- 1984
- Birthplace
- Guinea-Bissau
- Occupation
- Writer
- Education
- NOVA University Lisbon
- Nationality
- Portugal · Guinea-Bissau
- Languages
- Portuguese
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Gisela Casimiro (Guinea Bissau, 1984) is a Portuguese writer, activist and artist.
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• Name — Gisela Casimiro • Born — 1984 • Birthplace — Guinea-Bissau • Occupation — Writer • Education — NOVA University Lisbon
Biography
Biography
Gisela Casimiro was born in Guinea-Bissau in 1984. Three years later, she moved to Portugal, where she grew up. She studied language, Literature and Culture at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the NOVA University Lisbon. She was part of the anti-racist and feminist association, INMUNE – Instituto da Mulher Negra em Portugal, created by Joacine Katar Moreira, and is a member of UNA – União Negra das Artes.
Selected work
Selected work
• Translations • Irmã Marginal (2023, Orfeu Negro) • Poetry • Erosão (2018, Urutau) • Estendais (2023, Editorial Caminho) • Giz (2023, Urutau) • Theatre plays • Casa com Árvores Dentro (2022, dir. Cláudia Semedo) • Collections • Rio de Pérolas (2020, ed. António Martins, Ipsis Verbis) • Reconstituição Portuguesa (2022, ed. Viton Araújo and Diego Tórgo, Companhia das Letras)
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1984
Gisela Casimiro born at Guinea-Bissau.
Awards and recognition
In 2022, Lisbon City Council invited 48 authors to write a sentence alluding to freedom, and Gisela Casimiro was one of them. The 48 sentences were then painted on the ground in the city as part of the celebrations for the 48th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution. In 2023, she was listed as one of the 100 influential black personalities in Lusophony, as part of the 100 Power List, an initiative by the digital magazine Bantumen.
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- 1.Gisela Casimiro. Buala.
- 2.Cardoso, Paola. A sua vida ainda não deu em livro? Se passar por Gisela Casimiro, talvez dê. Afrolink.
- 3.Gisela Casimiro – Os Filhos da Madrugada. Anabela Mota Ribeiro.
- 4.Clube dos Poetas Vivos. Teatro Nacional D. Maria II. 2 November 2021.
- 5.Pimenta, Samuel F. Breve Poética: Gisela Casimiro. Revista Caliban. 15 February 2021.
- 6.Equipa. União Negra das Artes.
- 7.Nasceu a União Negra das Artes, para defender os interesses "da negritude no sector cultural". Publico. 3 August 2021.
- 8.Abril em Lisboa. 48 mulheres, escritoras, poetas e cantautoras, pintam o chão de Lisboa. Comunidade Cultura e Arte. 28 March 2022.
- 9.Gisela Casimiro. Bantumen. 2023.
- 10.Lançamento IRMÃ MARGINAL — SISTER OUTSIDER, de Audre Lorde. Bantumen. 9 November 2023.
- 11.Gisela Casimiro. Wook.
- 12.Cláudia Semedo e Gisela Casimiro levam "Casa com Árvores Dentro" ao palco. Bantumen. 21 October 2022.
- 13.Livro "Rio das Pérolas" será apresentado amanhã em Macau. Plataforma. 23 June 2020.
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