# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/baltasar-lopes-da-silva
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:36:24.158Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/baltasar-lopes-da-silva"
name: "Baltasar Lopes da Silva"
slug: "baltasar-lopes-da-silva"
description: "Baltasar Lopes da Silva was a writer, poet and linguist from Cape Verde, who wrote in both Portuguese and Cape Verdean Creole. With Manuel Lopes and Jorge Barbosa, he was the founder of Claridade. In 1947 he published Chiquinho, considered the greatest Cape Verdean novel and O dialecto crioulo de Cabo Verde which describes different dialects of creoles of Cape Verde. He sometimes wrote under the pseudonym Osvaldo Alcântara."
tagline: "Cape Verdean writer (1907–1989)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Cape_Verde_-_1992_500CVE_note_-_front.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1907-04-23"
deathDate: "1989-05-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.05
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.415876
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Освалду Алкантара"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بالتاسار لوپيس دا سيلڤا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltasar_Lopes_da_Silva"
    title: "Baltasar Lopes da Silva"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltasar_Lopes_da_Silva"
    title: "Baltasar Lopes da Silva"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltasar_Lopes_da_Silva"
    title: "Baltasar Lopes da Silva"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltasar_Lopes_da_Silva"
    title: "Baltasar Lopes da Silva"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltasar_Lopes_da_Silva"
    title: "Baltasar Lopes da Silva"
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  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltasar_Lopes_da_Silva"
    title: "Baltasar Lopes da Silva"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltasar_Lopes_da_Silva"
    title: "Baltasar Lopes da Silva"
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  - url: "https://mwl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltasar_Lopes_da_Silva"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltasar_Lopes_da_Silva"
    title: "Baltasar Lopes da Silva"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q548846"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump