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Mozambican Writers
This is a list of Mozambican writers. * Paulina Chiziane (1955– ), Portuguese-language novelist and short-story writer * Mia Couto (1955– ), novelist and short story writer * José Craveirinha (1922–2003), Portuguese-language poet * Luis Bernardo Honwana (1942– ), Portuguese-language short story writer * Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa (1957– ), Portuguese-language novelist and short-story writer * Fátima Langa (1953–2017), children's book author in Portuguese and various Bantu languages * Lina Magaia (1940s–2011), Portuguese-language novelist and short-story writer * Luis Bernardo Malangatana (1936– ), poet and autobiographical writer * Orlando Marques de Almeida Mendes (1916–1990), Portuguese-language novelist * Lília Momplé (1935– ), Portuguese-language fiction writer * Eduardo Mondlane (1924–1969), politician and autobiographical writer * Amélia Muge (1952– ), writer and singer * Rui de Noronha (1909–1943), poet * Glória de Santana (1925–2009), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paulina Chiziane
Paulina "Poulli" Chiziane (born 4 June 1955, Manjacaze, southern province of Gaza, Mozambique) is an author of novels and short stories in the Portuguese language. She was awarded the 2021 Camões Prize for literature, awarded to writers from Portuguese-speaking countries. Early life She studied at Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo. She was born to a Bantu Protestant family that moved from Gaza to the capital Maputo (then Lourenço Marques) during the writer's early childhood. At home she spoke Chopi and Ronga. Writing Chiziane was the first woman in Mozambique to publish a novel. Her writing has generated some polemical discussions about social issues, such as the practice of polygamy in the country. For example, her first novel, ''Balada do Amor ao Vento'' (1990), discusses polygamy in southern Mozambique during the colonial period. Related to her active involvement in the politics of Frelimo (Liberation Front of Mozambique), her narrative often reflects the social uneasiness ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amélia Muge
Amélia Muge (born 1952) is a Mozambique-born Portugal, Portuguese singer, instrumentalist, composer, and lyricist.Sandra Ponzanesi, Daniela Merolla, ''Migrant Cartographies: new cultural and literary spaces in post-colonial Europe'', p. 32. She is noted for her fado voice and poetic lyrics. Discography * ''Múgica'' (UPAV, 1992) * ''Todos os Dias'' (Sony, 1994) * ''Maio Maduro Maio'' - with João Afonso (musician), João Afonso and José Mário Branco (Sony, 1995) * ''Taco a taco'' (Polygram, 1998) * ''Novas vos Trago'' (1998) * ''A Monte'' (Vachier, 2002) * ''Não Sou Daqui'' (Vachier, 2007) * ''Uma Autora, 202 Canções'' (Character Ediora, 2009) * ''Periplus'' (2012) References 1952 births Living people Mozambican emigrants to Portugal People from Maputo Portuguese women singer-songwriters Portuguese singer-songwriters Portuguese fado singers 20th-century Portuguese women singers 21st-century Portuguese women singers {{Portugal-composer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lists Of Writers By Nationality
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Simon Gikandi
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List Of African Writers By Country
This is a list of prominent and notable writers from Africa. It includes poets, novelists, children's writers, essayists, and scholars, listed by country. Algeria ''See: List of Algerian writers'' Angola ''See: List of Angolan writers'' Benin ''See: List of Beninese writers'' Botswana * Galesiti Baruti, novelist and academic * Unity Dow (1959–), judge, human rights activist, writer and minister of basic education * Bessie Head (1937–1986), novelist and short-story writer born in South Africa * Leetile Disang Raditladi (1910–1971), playwright and poet * Barolong Seboni (1957–), poet and academic Burkina Faso ''See: List of Burkinabé writers'' Burundi * Esther Kamatari (1951–) * Ketty Nivyabandi (1978–) Cameroon ''See: List of Cameroonian writers'' Cape Verde Central African Republic * Pierre Makombo Bamboté (1932–), novelist and poet * Etienne Goyémidé (1942–1997), novelist, poet and short story writer: ''Le Silence de la Foret'' * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noémia De Sousa
Carolina Noémia Abranches de Sousa Soares, known as Noémia de Sousa (20 September 1926 – 4 December 2002),Anita De Melo"Noémia de Sousa" in ''Dictionary of Literary Biography: African Lusophone Writers''. was a poet from Mozambique who wrote in the Portuguese language. She was also known as Vera Micaia.Margaret Busby (ed.), "Noémia de Sousa", ''Daughters of Africa'', London: Jonathan Cape, 1992, p. 328. She was of mixed Portuguese and Bantu descent. De Sousa's poetry and involvement in Moçambicanidade was a large part of the anti-colonial literary movement of Mozambique. Life Noémia de Sousa was born of mixed-race heritage in Catembe, on the south side of the bay across from the Mozambican capital Lourenço Marques. Her father was a descended from a Luso- Afro-Indian family from the island of Mozambique; her maternal grandfather was German. Her father taught her to read at the age of four, four years before he died. De Sousa wrote often in her early years but did not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castro Soromenho
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Marcelino Dos Santos
Marcelino dos Santos (20 May 1929 – 11 February 2020) was a Mozambican poet, revolutionary, and politician. As a young man he travelled to Portugal, and France for an education. He was a founding member of the ''Frente de Libertação de Moçambique'' (FRELIMO—Mozambican Liberation Front), in 1962, and served as the party's deputy president from 1969 to 1977. He was Minister of Economic Development in the late 1970s, Frelimo Political Bureau member in charge of the economy in the early 1980s, Chairman of the country's parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, from 1987 to 1994, and, as of 1999, remained a member of the Frelimo Central Committee. He represented the left wing of the party, remaining an avowed Marxist-Leninist, despite the party's embrace of capitalism Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit. Central characteristics of capitalism include capital accumulation, co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glória De Santana
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Rui De Noronha
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Eduardo Mondlane
Eduardo Chivambo Mondlane (20 June 1920 – 3 February 1969) was the President of the Mozambican Liberation Front (FRELIMO) from 1962, the year that FRELIMO was founded in Tanzania, until his assassination in 1969. Born in Mozambique, he was an anthropologist by profession, and worked as a history and sociology professor at Syracuse University before returning to Mozambique in 1963. Early life The fourth of 16 sons of a chief of the Bantu-speaking Tsonga, Mondlane was born in "N'wajahani", district of Mandlakazi in the province of Gaza," in Portuguese East Africa (Mozambique) in 1920. He worked as a shepherd until the age of 12. He attended several different primary schools before enrolling in a Swiss–Presbyterian school near Manjacaze. However, he ended his secondary education in the same organisation's church school at Lemana College at Village above Elim Hospital in the Transvaal (Limpopo Province), South Africa. He then spent one year at the Jan H. Hofmeyr Scho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mia Couto
António Emílio Leite Couto, better known as Mia Couto (born 5 July 1955), is a Mozambican writer. He won the Camões Prize in 2013, the most important literary award in the Portuguese language, and the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2014. Life Early years Mia Couto was born in the city of Beira, Mozambique's third largest city, where he was also raised and schooled. He is the son of Portuguese emigrants who moved to the Portuguese colony in the 1950s. When he was 14 years old, some of his poetry was published in a local newspaper, ''Notícias da Beira''. Three years later, in 1971, he moved to the capital Lourenço Marques (now Maputo) and began to study medicine at the University of Lourenço Marques. During this time, the anti-colonial guerrilla and political movement FRELIMO was struggling to overthrow the Portuguese colonial rule in Mozambique. After independence of Mozambique In April 1974, after the Carnation Revolution in Lisbon and the overthrow o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
