Corsino António Fortes (14 February 1933 – 24 July 2015) was a Cape Verdean writer, poet and diplomat.
Corsino Fortes's first book Pão & Fonema (Bread & Phoneme),[4] which appeared in 1974, made an immediate impact.
[5] He became the first ever Cape Verdean ambassador to France on August 25, 1976[6] and served until December 2, 1981, which was succeeded by André Corsino Tolentino.
Both Pão e Fonema and Árvore e Tambor expressed a new conscience of reality in Cape Verde and a new traditional and cultural works on the archipelago.
In the final years of his life, he was interviewed along with Tomé Varela da Silva on December 3, 2008, in Nós Fora dos Eixos,[11] later by RTC, the national television network in February 2010,[12] later at a Brazilian university with Christina Ramalho on September 26, 2010[7] and by the country's major weekly newspaper A Semana in October 2013.