João Vário, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

João Vário

Cape Verdean writer

Date of Birth: 07-Jun-1937

Place of Birth: Mindelo, Cape Verde

Date of Death: 07-Aug-2007

Profession: scientist, writer, poet

Nationality: Cape Verde

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

João Vário (June 7, 1937 in Mindelo on São Vicente Island, Cape Verde – August 7, 2007 in Mindelo on Island, Cape Verde) was a Cape Verdean writer, neurosurgeon, scientist and professor.
The name was a pseudonym of João Manuel Varela.
Other aliases included Timóteo Tio Tiofe and G.
T.
Didial. He studied medicine in the universities of Coimbra and Lisbon.
He earned a doctorate from the University of Antwerp in Belgium.
He was a researcher and professor of neuropathology and neurobiology.
He returned to his native Mindelo where he lived until his deathHe also wrote several poems.
He influenced writers such as Saint-John Perse, T.
S.
Eliot, Ezra Pound and Aimé Césaire.