Silvino Lopes Évora is a Cape Verdean writer, poet, journalist and a university professor.
He was born in the village of Chão Bom nearly south of Tarrafal, he later attended primary school and a preparatory cycle.
He achieved secondary education at Liceu de Santa Catarina in Assomada.
With a European PhD, he spent a semester of research at the University of Santiago de Compostela.
In 2010, he started the second poetry book called O Passaporte da Diáspora (The Passport to the Diaspora).