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Mia Couto
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Mozambican writer
OverviewAI-generated
Mia Couto is a Mozambican writer, biologist, journalist, and novelist. Born in Beira in 1955, he works in Maputo and speaks European Portuguese. He is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters and has been educated at Eduardo Mondlane University. His professional affiliations include employment with the publication Tempo.
Couto has received several awards, including the Camões Prize, the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, the Order of Cultural Merit (Brazil), and the FIL Award. He was also nominated for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. His notable works include *Terra Sonambula* (Uma Terra sem amos), *O bebedor de horizontes*, *Sombras da Água*, and *O mapeador de ausências*.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 5 July 1955
- Works
- 98
Top works
- O mapeador de ausências
- O mapeador de ausencias
- O bebedor de horizontes
- Sombras da Água
- Terra Sonambula (Uma Terra sem amos)
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Writing · Beira, Mozambique
Mia Couto, is among the most prominent writers in Portuguese-speaking Africa. After studying medicine and biology in Maputo, he worked as a journalist. Besides writing, he is now a biologist and teaches at the Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo. In 2013, Mia Couto was awarded the Camões Prize for Literature 2013 and the prestigious Neustadt International Prize for Literature 2014. He was among…
Known for
- Plurais — Himself2024
- I Am the Author of My Name Mia Couto2019
- O Fascínio das Histórias2019
- Eduardo Galeano, Vagamundo — Self2018
- Karingana - Licença para contar — Self2017
- Língua - Vidas em Português — Self2003
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Spain
Discography
- Tekhuna EP2011
- Gabeta EP2012
- What the Fuck2012
- Take Me Away2013
- I Believe EP2013
- Coming Back EP2015
- Salimo EP2019
- Trico Trico EP2019
- Arcade2019
- Right on Time EP2019
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 24
- Total plays
- 43
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Mia+Couto">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Historical Overfishing and the Recent Collapse of Coastal Ecosystems
· 2001 · cited 4,873x
- The Somatic Genomic Landscape of Glioblastoma
· 2013 · cited 4,495x
- Estimation of the global prevalence of dementia in 2019 and forecasted prevalence in 2050: an analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2022 · cited 4,449x
- THE LARGE AREA TELESCOPE ON THE<i>FERMI GAMMA-RAY SPACE TELESCOPE</i>MISSION
· 2009 · cited 3,474x
- The repertoire of mutational signatures in human cancer
· 2020 · cited 3,337x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “Every morning the gazelle wakes up knowing she must run faster than the lion or will be dead. Every morning the lion wakes up knowing he must run faster than the gazelle or he'll starve. It doesn't matter if you are a lion or a gazelle: when the sun rises you better start to run.”
- “In war, the poor are killed. In peace, the poor dies.”
- “There is only a way of escape from a place: is leaving ourselves. There is only a way of leaving ourselves: is loving someone. Só há um modo de escapar de um lugar: é sairmos de nós. Só há um modo de sairmos de nós: é amarmos alguém.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- António Emílio Leite Couto , ( 1955-07-05 ) 5 July 1955 (age 70) , Beira, Mozambique
- Occupation
- Biologist and writer
- Nationality
- Mozambican
- Period
- Colonial & Post-colonial Africa
- Genre
- Animist realism, historical fiction
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Mozambique
- Place of birth
- Beira
- Occupation
- children's writer
- Educated at
- Eduardo Mondlane University
- Languages spoken
- European Portuguese
- Image
- Mia Couto cropped.jpg
- Work location
- Maputo
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- Commons category
- Mia Couto
- date of birth
- 1955-01-01
- nominated for
- Neustadt International Prize for Literature
- member of
- Brazilian Academy of Letters
- writing language
- Portuguese
- nickname
- Mia
- art name
- Mia Couto
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
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
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