Valter Hugo Mãe
Angola

Valter Hugo Mãe

valter hugo mother is The artistic name of the writer Valter Hugo Lemos (Henrique de Carvalho, Angola, September 25, 1971). In addition to being a writer, he is also a Portuguese editor, visual artist and singer. valter hugo mother was born in the Angolan city formerly called Henrique de Carvalho, now Saurimo.
He spent his childhood in Paços de Ferreira and in 1980 moved to Vila do Conde . He graduated in Law and did a postgraduate degree in Modern and Contemporary Portuguese Literature.
In 1999 he founded with Jorge Reis-Sá a Quasi editions.
In 2001, still in Quasi,  ;co-directs the magazine Apeadeiro and in 2006 founded the publishing house Objecto Cardiac.
In 2007 he received the José Saramago, during the delivery of which José Saramago considered the novel a true "literary tsunami".
Beyond ;a part of writing has been dedicated to drawing, with a first solo exhibition opened in May 2007, in Porto, and to music, having debuted as the voice of the group O Governador in January 2008, at Teatro do Campo Alegre, in Porto.< /p>

 

Photo: Ana Esteves Brandão