The first collection of essays in English by the winner of the 2013 Camões Prize and the 2014 Neustadt Prize.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Mia Couto, an environmental biologist from Mozambique, is the author of 25 books of fiction, essays and poems in his native Portuguese. Couto’s novels and short story collections have been translated into 20 languages. Two of his novels have been made into feature films. His work has been awarded important literary prizes in Mozambique, South Africa, Portugal, Italy and Brazil. His books have been bestsellers in Africa, Europe and Latin America. Six of Couto’s books have been translated into English in the United Kingdom: two short story collections by Heinemann and four novels by Serpent’s Tail. In 2007 he was the first African author to win the Latin Union Award for Romance Languages; in 2013 he was awarded the €100,000 Camões Prize for Literature, in recognition of his life’s work. In 2014 he received the $50,000 Neustadt Prize for Literature, and in 2015 he was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize.
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The Frontier of Culture Our Poor Rich People A Word of Advice and Some Advice Without Words What Africa Does the African Writer Write About? The Fly or the Spider? Citizenship in Search of Its City The Brazilian Sertão in the Mozambican Savannah Animal Conservation: A Noah-less Ark? Waters of My Beginning Languages We Don't Know We Know The Seven Dirty Shoes Dreaming of Home Travelling Fire Raisers The Planet of Frayed Socks Half a Future Baring One's Voice What if Obama Were African? Nutmegged by a Verse The Waters of Biodiversity As if the Sea Had Another Shore The China Within Us The City on the Veranda of Time Mozambique: 25 Years A Sea of Exchange, an Ocean of Myths The Sweet Containment of Sura Land of Water and Rain Flying Places A Boat in the Sky over Munhava
The Frontier of Culture Our Poor Rich People A Word of Advice and Some Advice Without Words What Africa Does the African Writer Write About? The Fly or the Spider? Citizenship in Search of Its City The Brazilian Sertão in the Mozambican Savannah Animal Conservation: A Noah-less Ark? Waters of My Beginning Languages We Don't Know We Know The Seven Dirty Shoes Dreaming of Home Travelling Fire Raisers The Planet of Frayed Socks Half a Future Baring One's Voice What if Obama Were African? Nutmegged by a Verse The Waters of Biodiversity As if the Sea Had Another Shore The China Within Us The City on the Veranda of Time Mozambique: 25 Years A Sea of Exchange, an Ocean of Myths The Sweet Containment of Sura Land of Water and Rain Flying Places A Boat in the Sky over Munhava
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