David Brookshaw is an emeritus professor at the University of Bristol, UK. He has published widely in the field of Brazilian and lusophone postcolonial studies. His translations include, most recently, Mia Couto’s Confession of the Lioness and Pensativities and Other Interinventions: Selected Essays, both forthcoming in spring 2015. His translation of Couto’s “In Some Other Life I Was a Bird” appears on page 53.
Windsor, Canada. Biblioasis. 2021. 399 pages.
“SEA LOVES ME,” the title story of Mia Couto’s latest collection, brims with secrets, seduction, and the wisdom of ancestors. Zeca Perpét...
New York. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2020. 288 pages.
MASTER STORYTELLER MIA COUTO frames an inspired tale with actual events in The Sword and the Spear. The novel illustrate...
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...
New York. Archipelago Books. 2016. 494 pages.
In The First Wife, Paulina Chiziane, the first Mozambican woman to publish a novel, writes from the perspective of Rami, who is Tony’s only wife—...
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...
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...