Nogar, Rui
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Life
Francisco Rui Moniz Barreto Nogar was born February 2, 1932, in Lourenço Marques. His father was from Goa and ethnically Indian; his mother was of Portuguese descent of the family of Moniz Barreto. Rui Nogar passed away on March 11, 1993, in Lisbon, while serving as cultural attaché at the Mozambican embassy. He died of cerebral malaria, a disease that he had recently contracted in Mozambique and whose symptoms he had mistaken for a cold until it was too late.
Strongly influenced by Marxist thought and supportive of revolutionary causes worldwide (he kept a beard to look like Fidel Castro), Nogar aligned himself early with the Mozambicans who were opposed to the fascist Salazar regime. His subversive activities landed him in prison from 1965 to 1968. His clandestine revolutionary activities continued after he was released from prison. Before and after his incarceration, he worked for Rennie, a South African company.
With independence, Rui Nogar was named director of social services in the new government and later was named minister of the Department of Culture. He also served for a time as a deputy in the National Assembly and as director of the Museum of the Revolution in Maputo.
Poems in Poets of Mozambique
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Life
Francisco Rui Moniz Barreto Nogar was born February 2, 1932, in Lourenço Marques. His father was from Goa and ethnically Indian; his mother was of Portuguese descent of the family of Moniz Barreto. Rui Nogar passed away on March 11, 1993, in Lisbon, while serving as cultural attaché at the Mozambican embassy. He died of cerebral malaria, a disease that he had recently contracted in Mozambique and whose symptoms he had mistaken for a cold until it was too late.
Strongly influenced by Marxist thought and supportive of revolutionary causes worldwide (he kept a beard to look like Fidel Castro), Nogar aligned himself early with the Mozambicans who were opposed to the fascist Salazar regime. His subversive activities landed him in prison from 1965 to 1968. His clandestine revolutionary activities continued after he was released from prison. Before and after his incarceration, he worked for Rennie, a South African company.
With independence, Rui Nogar was named director of social services in the new government and later was named minister of the Department of Culture. He also served for a time as a deputy in the National Assembly and as director of the Museum of the Revolution in Maputo.
Poems in Poets of Mozambique
- Retrato (Portrait)
- Guarda prisional com transistor (Prison Guard with Transistor)
- Flores na sala de estar (Flowers in the Living Room)
- Grades 67 (Gratings 67)
- Pragmatismo americano (American Pragmatism)
Rui Nogar’s only volume of poetry is Silêncio escancarado, Lisboa: Edições 70, 1982. It is from that volume that the selections in this anthology were taken.
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