I was born in 1976 in a mountainous village named Sunu (in West Timor, Indonesia) and grew up in the East Timorese enclave of Oecusse-Ambeno, where I finished my elementary, secondary and high school. I graduated from the University of Nusa Cendana in Kupang, in February 2000. Besides writing poetry and dictionaries, I teach Spanish (and sometimes Tetum) as well as translating (poetry, etc.).
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My major influences in poetry are the poets Pablo Neruda, Alfredo García Valdez, Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine, Rabindranath Tagore, Fernando Pessoa, Gabriela Mistral, Octavio Paz, and Charles Baudelaire. Besides I do enjoy reading the works of Karol Wojtyla.
Birth Place
West Timor, Indonesia
Accomplishments
I write in Indonesian, the National Tetum (of East Timor), Uab Meto (Dawan), English, Esperanto, French, etc. and have participated in a number of French poetry competitions and won several times. Besides, I have been active in poetry discussions. I have participated in the writing of "TruAlfa Indonesian-English Dictionary" (2002) and "TruAlfa Concise English-Indonesian Dictionary" (2005). In July 2007, PT Gramedia Pustaka Utama in Jakarta (the capital city of Indonesia) published my "Kamus Indonesia-Tetun, Tetun-Indonesia" (Indonesian-Tetum, Tetum-Indonesian Dictionary), the first dictionary of its kind ever systematically written according to the official spelling systems of the two neighbouring countries. And in December 2015, again, PT Gramedia Pustaka Utama published my "Kamus Portugis-Indonesia, Indonesia-Portugis" (Portuguese-Indonesian, Indonesian-Portuguese Dictionary), the first dictionary of its kind published in the country.
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