# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/manuel-lopes
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:43:46.966Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/manuel-lopes"
name: "Manuel Lopes"
slug: "manuel-lopes"
description: "Manuel António de Sousa Lopes was a Cape Verdean novelist, poet and essayist. With Baltasar Lopes da Silva and Jorge Barbosa he was a founder of the journal Claridade, which contributed to the rise of Cape Verdean literature.\nManuel Lopes wrote in Portuguese, using expressions typical for Cape Verdean Portuguese and Cape Verdean Creole. He was one of those responsible for describing world calamities of the droughts that caused several deaths in São Vicente and Santo Antão."
tagline: "Cape Verdean novelist, poet and essayist (1907-2005)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Claridade.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1907-12-23"
deathDate: "2005-01-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.15
  momentum:             6.918344813081655
  historical:           8.347733333333332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://yo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Lopes"
    title: "Manuel Lopes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Lopes"
    title: "Manuel Lopes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Lopes_(writer)"
    title: "Manuel Lopes (writer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Lopes"
    title: "Manuel Lopes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Lopes"
    title: "Manuel Lopes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Մանուել Լոպեշ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Lopes"
    title: "Manuel Lopes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Lopes"
    title: "Manuel Lopes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%88%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%83%D1%8D%D0%BB"
    title: "Лопеш, Мануэл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Ant%C3%B3nio_dos_Santos_Lopes"
    title: "Manuel António dos Santos Lopes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2636281"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump