Odete Semedo
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Maria Odete da Costa Semedo | |
|---|---|
| Born | 7 November 1959 |
| Alma mater | Universidade Nova de Lisboa |
| Occupations | Writer, teacher |
Maria Odete da Costa Semedo (born 7 November 1959 in Bissau) is a writer and educator from Guinea-Bissau. She works in both in Portuguese and Guinea Creole.[1]
Odete Semedo was born in Bissau on 7 November 1959 in what was then Portuguese Guinea. She completed her secondary studies at the National Lyceum Kwame N'Krumah.
She graduated in Modern Languages and Literatures from the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, in the academic year 1989/1990.[2]
Upon returning to the country, in 1990, she assumed the National Coordination of the Portuguese Language Project in Secondary Education, financed by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. In the same period, she was invited to take over as Director of the College Tchico-Té (in Portuguese: Escola Normal Superior Tchico-Té); at the same time, she worked as a teacher.
She is the founder of the journal Revista de Letras, Artes e Cultura Tcholona, and has published two books of poetry, Entre o Ser e o Amar and No Fundo do Canto.[3] She works in Bissau as a researcher in the fields of education and training at the Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisas.
