Liberation Front of Portuguese Guinea and Cape Verde "Movimento de Libertação da Guiné Portuguesa", MLGP) Its life was short due to internal conflict and it was soon replaced by the United Liberation Front ("Front Uni de Libération", FUL), a predecessor of the Struggle Front for the National Independence of Guinea ("Frente de Luta Pela Independencia Nacional da Guine-Bissau", FLING) Liberation Front of Portuguese Guinea and Cape Verde The Liberation Front of Portuguese Guinea and Cape Verde (Portuguese: "Frente de Libertação da Guiné Portuguesa e Cabo Verde", FLGC) was a militant political party in Guinea-Bissau, then part of Portuguese Guinea, formed to seek independence from Portugal. It was established
Literature of Cape Verde Notebook) in 1955 which won the Camilo Pessanha Award, the first Cape Verdean book to be awarded. Aguinaldo Fonseca was the forgotten poet, though his poems were published in "Linha do Horizonte" collection in 1951. At the time, writers like Manuel Lopes would be linked to resistance movements. Some writers were exiled to some European countries in the years before independence. Cape Verde became independent on July 5, 1975. Cape Verdean literature began to flourish further, the work "The Island of Contenda" was published in 1976. Writers like Henrique Teixeira de Sousa, Gabriel Mariano and others continued to write and