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Mia Couto

Pensativities

Selected Essays

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One of the greatest living writers in the Portuguese language.—Philip Graham, The MillionsSubtle and elegant.—The Wall Street JournalAt once deadpan and beguiling.—The Times Literary SupplementTo understand what makes António 'Mia' Emílio Leite Couto special—even extraordinary—we have to loosen our grip on the binary that distinguishes between 'the West' and 'Africa.' Couto is 'white' without not being African, and as an 'African' writer he's one of the most important figures in a global Lusophone literature that stretches across three continents.—The New InquiryWhat would Barack Obama's 2004 campaign have looked like if it unfolded in an Afr… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Brookshaw, David (Übers.)
  • ISBN: 978-1-77196-006-9
  • EAN: 9781771960069
  • Produktnummer: 22550521
  • Verlag: Biblioasis
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
  • Seitenangabe: 304 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 451 KB
  • Reihenbandnummer: 14

Über den Autor


Mia Couto, an environmental biologist from Mozambique, is the author of 25 books of fiction, essays and poems in his native Portuguese. Couto's novels and short story collections have been translated into 20 languages. Two of his novels have been made into feature films. His work has been awarded important literary prizes in Mozambique, South Africa, Portugal, Italy and Brazil. His books have been bestsellers in Africa, Europe and Latin America. Six of Couto's books have been translated into English in the United Kingdom: two short story collections by Heinemann and four novels by Serpent's Tail. In 2007 he was the first African author to win the Latin Union Award for Romance Languages; in 2013 he was awarded the €100,000 Camões Prize for Literature, in recognition of his life's work. In 2014 he received the $50,000 Neustadt Prize for Literature, administered by World Literature Today.

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