Os Flagelados do Vento Leste
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Os Flagelados do Vento Leste (Portuguese
meaning "The Victims Of The East Wind") is a Capeverdean
novel
published in 1959 by Manuel Lopes
. The novel was one of the most popular, it was adapted into a movie directed by António Faria in 1987.
The novel was awarded the Prémio Meio Milénio do Achamento de Cabo Verde award.
Portuguese language
Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...
meaning "The Victims Of The East Wind") is a Capeverdean
Cape Verde
The Republic of Cape Verde is an island country, spanning an archipelago of 10 islands located in the central Atlantic Ocean, 570 kilometres off the coast of Western Africa...
novel
Novel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....
published in 1959 by Manuel Lopes
Manuel Lopes
Manuel António de Sousa Lopes was a Cape Verdean novelist, poet and essayist and a founder of modern Cape Verdean literature. With Baltasar Lopes da Silva and Jorge Barbosa he was a creator of the paper named Claridade...
. The novel was one of the most popular, it was adapted into a movie directed by António Faria in 1987.
The novel was awarded the Prémio Meio Milénio do Achamento de Cabo Verde award.