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Mia Couto
Mia Couto was born in 1955 in Mozambique and is the most prominent writer in Portuguese-speaking Africa. He has been active as a journalist and for several years headed the AIM news agency in Maputo. He now lives in Maputo where he works as an environmental biologist. show more

Mia Couto was born in 1955 in Mozambique and is the most prominent writer in Portuguese-speaking Africa. He has been active as a journalist and for several years headed the AIM news agency in Maputo. He now lives in Maputo where he works as an environmental biologist.
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Birth date: July 05, 1955
Category:
Literature & Fiction, Poetry
Mia Couto's Books
Sleepwalking Land - David Brookshaw, Mia Couto The Tuner of Silences - David Brookshaw, Mia Couto Every Man Is a Race - Mia Couto, David Brookshaw Under the Frangipani - Mia Couto, David Brookshaw Confession of the Lioness - Mia Couto Pensativities: Selected Essays (Biblioasis International Translation Series) - Mia Couto, David Brookshaw Voices Made Night - Mia Couto The Last Flight of The Flamingo - Mia Couto A River Called Time - Mia Couto, David Brookshaw Woman of the Ashes - Mia Couto
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Confession of the Lioness - Mia Couto, David Brookshaw
Pensativities: Selected Essays (Biblioasis International Translation Series) - Mia Couto, David Brookshaw
The Last Flight of The Flamingo - Mia Couto
A River Called Time - Mia Couto, David Brookshaw
Confession of the Lioness - Mia Couto, David Brookshaw
Confession of the Lioness: A Novel - Mia Couto, David Brookshaw
Under the Frangipani - Mia Couto, David Brookshaw
Lunatyczna kraina - Mia Couto
Lunatyczna kraina - Mia Couto
The Tuner of Silences - Mia Couto, David Brookshaw
Mia Couto's readers
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Summer Reading Project, BookLikes Satellite
Summer Reading Project, BookLikes Satellite rated it 9 years ago
text Confession of the Lioness, by Mia Couto
Many of the books I read illustrate just how connected we are to each other. One character’s actions will affect another character’s life, who will in turn change a third character’s life. But every now and then, I’ll read a book about people and places that are so isolated from the rest of the worl...
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Musings/Träumereien/Devaneios
Musings/Träumereien/Devaneios rated it 9 years ago
text Writing Is a Dangerous Form of Vanity: "Confession of the Lioness" by Mia Couto
Published July 14, 2015 (English edition) Published 2012 (Portuguese Edition) Translation by David Brookshaw. Disclaimer: I received an advance reader's copy of this book directly from the publisher in exchange for my honest review. All opinions expressed are my own, and no monetary compensation...
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gavingrant
gavingrant rated it 15 years ago
text Voices Made Night (African Writers Series)
Great and sometimes great fun. Noted with interest for those keeping track of the ongoing discussion about fiction in translation: this came out in 1990 and the translator's name, David Brookshaw, is on neither the front nor back cover.
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