Writer advocates promoting reading habits and teaching the Cape Verdean language to strengthen the literary market

Praia, April 1 (Inforpress) – Writer and sociologist Paulo Ferreira Veríssimo today defended the need to invest in reading habits and the teaching of the Cape Verdean language as a way to strengthen literary consumption and production in the country.

In an interview with Inforpress, regarding the launch of his second book, "Cadernos dum Poeta – Relatos de uma Vida Interior" (Notebooks of a Poet – Tales of an Inner Life), the author considered that there is no resistance to poetry, but rather a need to cultivate aesthetic taste and the habit of reading.

As he explained, one of the main difficulties is related to language, since many Cape Verdeans write in Creole, especially on social media, "without caring whether they are writing well or badly in Creole," and face limitations in reading because they were not taught to read in their mother tongue.

“The challenge is this: to teach people to write so that they can also decode the writing of others,” stated the writer, underlining the importance of structuring the teaching of the Cape Verdean language to improve literacy and broaden access to national literary production.

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