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On 8 December 1961, Santomean poet and journalist, Maria da Conceição de Deus Lima, also known as Conceição Lima, was born in Santana on São Tomé.

Lima studied journalism in Portugal and worked in radio, television and in the print press in her native country. In 1993, she founded the weekly independent publication 'O País Hoje' (The Country Today) which she directed and wrote for during its circulation. She received a degree in Afro-Portuguese and Brazilian Studies from King's College in London. Conceição Lima resides in London where she works as a journalist and producer for the BBC Portuguese Language Services. Her poetry has been published in newspapers, magazines, and anthologies in several countries. 'O Útero da Casa' was her first book of poetry and was published in 2004 in Lisbon by the Portuguese publishing house Caminho. Her second book (also poetry), 'A Dolorosa Raiz do Micondó', was released in 2006 by the same publisher. Some of her work has been translated into English by the Poetry Translation Centre in London.

(Source: Wikipedia)

Selected publications 

Nação e narrativa pós-Colonial. Cabo Verde, Guiné-Bissau e São Tomé e Príncipe entrevistas. IV, literatura & cinema / Ana Mafalda Leite [et al.]. - [Lisboa] : Ediçóes Colibri, [2018]

A colecionadora de fantasmas : apontamentos sobre sobrevivência e teor testemunhal na poesia de Conceição Lima / Fabio Fadul de Moura; Adriano de Carvalho Braule. - Sao Paulo : Universidade de São Paulo
In: Revista Criação & crítica, number 19 (2017), pages 16-30

Conceição Lima e a poesia na pós-independência em São Tomé / Roberto Pontes.
In: Contexto, number 25 (2014), pages 127-142

Conceição Lima: a poética cartografia que contesta a resignação e o silêncio / Adriana Elisabete Bayer.
In: Reflexos revue pluridisciplinaire du monde lusophone, number 2 (2014)

Ye, rêguê / Maria Cristina Barbosa; Fernanda Pontífice; Conceição Lima. - São Tomé e Príncipe : Banco Internacional, 2011

Calulu of São Tomé : an Interview with Conceição Lima / Russell R. Hamilton.
In: Callaloo, volume 30, number 1 (2007), pages 119-123

Lusophone African and Afro-Brazilian literatures / Lúcia Helena Costigan; Russell G. Hamilton. - Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, 2007

A poesia de Conceição Lima : o sentido da história das ruminações afetivas / Inocência Mata.
In: Veredas : revista da Associação Internacional de Luisitanistas, number 7 (2006), pages 235-251

A dolorosa raiz do micondó : a voz poética intimista, são-tomense, pan-africanista e globalista de Conceição Lima / Russell R. Hamilton.
In: Veredas : revista da Associação Internacional de Luisitanistas, number 7 (2006), pages 253-265

See also
Conceição Lima - a poeta são-tomense / Elfi Kürten Fenske. Templo Cultural Delfos, 2022 (accessed on 5 December 2022)

Birthing Africa: Womanhood and Citizenship in the Poetry of Conceição Lima, UC Bekeley, 23-02-2022

Timeline of São Tomé and Príncipe poets via Wikidata and DBpedia