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Mia Couto

Call for Solidarity from Mozambique: A Message from 2014 Neustadt Prize Laureate Mia Couto

March 21, 2019 | Mia Couto

Call for Solidarity from Mozambique: A Message from 2014 Neustadt Prize Laureate Mia Couto It is already well known that the city of Beira and the entire central reg...
Woman of the Ashes by Mia Couto

May 2018
Mia Couto

New York. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2018. 272 pages. The first entry in a planned trilogy, Mia Couto’s Woman of the Ashes is a beautiful and grotesque force interweaving history with myth. A...
Confession of the Lioness by Mia Couto

November 2015
Mia Couto

David Brookshaw, tr. New York. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2015. ISBN 9780374129231. Nominated for the Man Booker International Prize, Mia Couto’s Confession of the Lioness tackles large iss...
Re-enchanting the World: The 2014 Neustadt Prize Acceptance Speech

January 2015
Mia Couto

One of the most prominent writers in Portuguese-speaking Africa, Mia Couto was born in 1955 in Beira, Mozambique. Couto studied medicine and biology in Maputo and began his literary career du...
Mia Couto

“Some critics have called Mia Couto ‘the smuggler writer,’ a sort of Robin Hood of words who steals meanings to make them available in every tongue, forcing apparently separate worlds to...

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