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PRAISE FOR MIA COUTO Mia Couto's stories of civilisation and barbarity are told through a language that is precise and profound; he weaves together the living tradition of legend, poetry and song. --International Man Booker shortlist jury citation On almost every page ... we sense Couto's delight in those places where language slips officialdom's asphyxiating grasp. --The New York Times [Couto is] a brilliant aphorist. There are countless sentences that ... have the weight and wisdom of ancient proverbs. --The Wall Street Journal Even in translation, his prose is suffused with striking images. --The Washington Post Couto's narrative tone, at once deadpan and beguiling, and his virtuoso management of time place him alongside the best Latin American magic realists. --Times Literary Supplement Quite unlike anything else I have read from Africa. --Doris Lessing Mia Couto, long regarded as one of the leading writers in Mozambique, has now been recognized as one of the greatest living writers in the Portuguese language ... [He] cracks open a welcoming window onto a vast world of literary pleasures that has for too long remained under the radar in the English-speaking world. --Philip Graham, The Millions

PRAISE FOR MIA COUTO Mia Couto's stories of civilisation and barbarity are told through a language that is precise and profound; he weaves together the living tradition of legend, poetry and song. --International Man Booker shortlist jury citation On almost every page ... we sense Couto's delight in those places where language slips officialdom's asphyxiating grasp. --The New York Times [Couto is] a brilliant aphorist. There are countless sentences that ... have the weight and wisdom of ancient proverbs. --The Wall Street Journal Even in translation, his prose is suffused with striking images. --The Washington Post Couto's narrative tone, at once deadpan and beguiling, and his virtuoso management of time place him alongside the best Latin American magic realists. --Times Literary Supplement Quite unlike anything else I have read from Africa. --Doris Lessing Mia Couto, long regarded as one of the leading writers in Mozambique, has now been recognized as one of the greatest living writers in the Portuguese language ... [He] cracks open a welcoming window onto a vast world of literary pleasures that has for too long remained under the radar in the English-speaking world. --Philip Graham, The Millions

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Mia Couto was born in Beira, Mozambique, in 1955. He dropped out of medical school to join the struggle against Portuguese colonialism in his country. When Mozambique became independent in 1975, Couto was named Director of Information in the revolutionary government and served as editor of two newspapers. In the 1980s, he returned to university to study environmental biology while beginning his writing career. Couto is the author of more than 25 books of fiction, essays and poems. His novels and short story collections have been published in 20 languages; made into feature films; been bestsellers in Africa, Europe, and South America; and awarded major literary prizes in Mozambique, Portugal, Brazil, and Italy, including the 2013 Cames Prize, and the 2014 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. In 2015, he was a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize. His novel The Tuner of Silences was longlisted for the 2015 IMPAC Dublin Award, while Confession of the Lioness was shortlisted for the Award in 2017. Mia Couto lives with his family in Maputo, Mozambique, where he works as an environmental consultant and a theatre director.

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