Yolanda Morazzo

Yolanda Morazzo Lopes da Silva (16 December 1927 – 27 January 2009) was a Cape Verdean language writer as well as a poet.

Although she lived for many years in Portugal, she is associated with the Claridade movement of Cape Verdean writers.

After independence in Cape Verde as well as Angola, she published a book titled Cantico de ferro: Poesua de Intervenção, the Iron Canticles: Poetry on Intervention in 1976.

Her work appeared in Maria M. Ellen's Across the Atlantic: An Anthology of Cape Verdean Literature.

[5][6] Her relatives were other writers that were famous in the islands, including António Aurélio Gonçalves and Baltasar Lopes da Silva, as well as another woman writer, Ivone Ramos.