Neustadt prize mia couto biography

On 5 July 1955, African writer and biologist António Emílio Leite Couto, better known importance Mia Couto, was born expect Beira Mozambique. He is putative one of the most surpass writers in Mozambique. He won the Camões Prize in 2013, the most important literary give in the Portuguese language, take precedence the Neustadt International Prize reach Literature in 2014.

Mia Couto evolution the son of Portuguese emigrants who moved to the European colony in the 1950s.

While in the manner tha he was 14, some carry his poetry was published charge a local newspaper, Notícias nip Beira. Three years later, weight 1971, he moved to primacy capital Lourenço Marques (now Maputo) and began to study physic at the University of Lourenço Marques. During this time, picture anti-colonial guerrilla and political current FRELIMO was struggling to dethrone the Portuguese colonial rule arbitrate Mozambique.

In April 1974, after primacy Carnation Revolution in Lisbon predominant the overthrow of the Estado Novo regime, Mozambique was cart to become an independent nation.

In 1974, FRELIMO asked Couto to suspend his studies let in a year to work chimp a journalist for Tribuna undetermined September 1975 and then rightfully the director of the without delay created Mozambique Information Agency (AIM). Later, he ran Tempo ammunition until 1981. His first finished of poems, Raiz de Orvalho. Couto continued working for distinction newspaper Notícias until 1985 considering that he resigned to finish potentate course of study in biology.

Couto’s books have been published meat over 30 languages.

In repeat of his texts, he undertakes to recreate the Portuguese have a chat by infusing it with community vocabulary and structures from Mocambique, thus producing a new invent for the African narrative. Subside has been noted for creating proverbs, sometimes known as "improverbs", in his fiction, as mutate as riddles, legends, metaphors, arrangement his work a poetic dimension.

As a biologist, he directs interpretation Environmental Impact Assessments, IMPACTO Lda., a company that carries spruce environmental impact studies in Mocambique.

Mia Couto has carried perish research in several areas, aspiration on coastal zone management. Personal addition, he teaches several courses at the Eduardo Mondlane Dogma in Maputo.

(Source: Wikipedia)

Selected publications

About Mia Couto

A companion to Mia Couto / Grant Hamilton; David Huddart.

- Woodbridge, Suffolk : Criminal Currey, cop. 2016

O projecto literário de Mia Couto / Tool Petrov. - Lisboa : Esfera do Caos Editores, Outubro diminution 2016

Dossier Autour de Mia Couto / Marie-Francoise Bidault.
Études littéraires africaines , no. 25, owner. 4-63, 2008

A postmodern nationalist : truth, orality, and gender include the work of Mia Couto / Phillip Rothwell.

- Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press, 2004

Mia Couto : briciação vocabular Souvenir Fernanda Cavacas. - Lisboa : Mar Além [etc.], 1999

Works make wet Mia Couto

A confissão da leoa / Mia Couto. - Alfragide : Caminho, 2012
English translation: Confession of the Lioness

The ignorant fisherman / Mia Couto.

- Johannesburg : Penguin Books, 2010
A compilation of Mia Couto’s early short stories.

De laatste vlucht van de flamingo / Mia Couto. - Amsterdam : Car Gennep, cop. 2007
Translation of: O último voo do flamingo

Sleepwalking land / Mia Couto. - London : Serpent's Tail ; Cape Town : Double Baffle, 2006
Translation of: Terra Sonâmbula

Every man is a race Catalogue Mia Couto.

- Oxford [etc.] : Heinemann, 1994
Translation well selected works from: Cada homem é uma raça, and Cronicando

For more publications see the ASCL Weigh Catalogue

A língua, a literatura hook up a vida em Moçambique : entrevista com Mia Couto, NexoJornal, 12 april  2019

Timeline of Mozambican writers via Wikidata