5/24/2023 0 Comments Mia couto rain and other stories![]() In many of his texts, he undertakes to recreate the Portuguese language by infusing it with regional vocabulary and structures from Mozambique, thus producing a new model for African narrative. He was shortlisted for his entire body of work for the Man Booker International Prize 2015. He won the Camões Prize in 2013, the most important literary award in the Portuguese language, and the Neustadt International Prize for Literature (The Prize is a biennial award sponsored by the University of Oklahoma and World Literature Today since 1970, and is one of the few international prizes for which poets, novelists, and playwrights are equally eligible) in 2014. ![]() ![]() He has published more than thirty books that have been translated in thirty different countries. After studying medicine and biology, he worked as a journalist and headed several national newspapers and magazines in Mozambique. Mozambican writer Mia Couto is one of the most prominent Portuguese language writers of today. ![]()
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