Mia Couto

Mia Couto, whose full name is António Emílio Leite Couto, was born on 5 July 1955 in Beira, to Portuguese emigrant parents. A medical student in Lourenço Marques, he became a journalist after the April 1974 revolution, headed the Mozambique Information Agency, then the magazine Tempo, before resuming biology studies in 1985, his profession ever since. His Portuguese draws on the vocabulary of the country's regions. Winner of the Camões Prize in 2013 and the Neustadt Prize in 2014, he is the most translated Mozambican writer.

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• Short storiesVoices Made NightVozes anoitecidasMia Couto · 1986Literature