On the cover of his latest book of prose poems, Suturas do Amor (Editorial Autor, 2019), Mozambican author Rudêncio Morais announces that he is a poeta falso or “false poe…
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February 3, 2020
March 21, 2019Call 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 r…
February 17, 2015Mia Couto photographed by Shevaun Williams, October 2014.The Mia Couto short-story collection I’m currently translating, entitled Estórias Abensonhadas (working title: Selected S…
September 24, 2014Norman, Oklahoma, Sept. 24, 2014 – The 2014 Neustadt Festival of International Literature and Culture, featuring writers and scholars from Africa, Europe and the United States, will take place on the…
November 1, 2013Mia Couto, laureate of the 2014 Neustadt International Prize for Literature.NORMAN, OKLA., Nov. 1, 2013 – Mozambican author António Emílio Leite Couto (Mia Couto) has been chosen by a jury of nine int…
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