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Life
Paulina Chiziane (Manjacaze, Gaza, June 4, 1955) is a Mozambican writer. Paulina
Chiziane grew up in the suburbs of the city of Maputo, formerly called Lourenço.
Marques. He was born into a Protestant family where the Chope and Ronga languages were spoken.
He learned the Portuguese language at a school run by a Catholic mission. He began his studies of
Linguistics at Eduardo Mondlane University without, however, having completed the course.
He actively participated in the political scene of Mozambique as a member of Frelimo (Front of
Liberation of Mozambique), in which she fought during her youth. The writer declared, in a
interview, having learned the art of activism in Frelimo. However, he stopped getting involved in
policy to dedicate to the writing and publication of your works. Among the reasons for your choice
There was disappointment with the political directives of the Frelimo party post-independence.
He began his literary activity in 1984, with short stories published in the Mozambican press.
With his first book, Ballad of Love to the Wind, published in 1990, he became the first
Mozambican woman publishing a novel.
Works
Ballad of Love to the Wind:
Winds of the Apocalypse:
The Seventh Oath. Lisbon: Caminho, 2000.
Niketche: A Story of Polygamy
The Joyful Song of the Partridge
In God's Hands, 2013.
For Whom the Drums of the Beyond Beat, 2013
JOSÉ JOÃO CRAVEIRINHA
Life
Lourenço Marques (now Maputo), 1922 – 2003
Poet, essayist, and journalist. Born in Lourenço Marques (now Maputo), son of a white father.
of Algarvian descent and of a black mother (Ronga). The father was a modest employee and, at the time of
option, already reformed, José Craveirinha had to be sacrificed, remaining with only primary education,
so that your older brother could attend high school. But Craveirinha, who was already reading a lot at that time,
influenced by his father, a great lover of Zola, Victor Hugo, and Junqueiro, begins to make
at home the course that the brother was taking in high school, following the lessons that he was having. Thus,
Your teachers were so without knowing it or only knowing it later. He began his
journalistic activity in Brado Africano, but later collaborated in Notícias, where he was
also a proofreader, at Tribuna, in Notícias da Beira, in Voz de Moçambique and in Cooperador
from Mozambique. In this last one, he published a series of essay articles on folklore
Mozambican that constitutes an important contribution to the theme. But it was in poetry
that Craveirinha revealed himself as a prominent case in Portuguese language literature,
asserting itself as "the immeasurable distance - the greatest African poet of Portuguese expression"
(Rui Knopfli). He would make his debut as a poet, also in the Brado Africano of Lourenço Marques.
in 1955, following the publication of his poems in the Itinerary of the same city and in
newspapers and magazines from Angola, Portugal (notably in Mensagem, from the House of Students
of the Empire) and Brazil, mainly. It appears in all anthologies of African poetry from
Portuguese language that has been published since then and also in many anthologies of poetry.
African of all languages.
Works
Chigubo. Lisbon: House of Students of the Empire, 1964 (with thirteen poems); the 2nd
The edition was reappointed Xigubo, with twenty-one poems (Maputo: INLD, 1980).
Canticle to a God of Tar. Milan: Lerici, 1966. Bilingual edition with translation and
foreword by Joyce Lussu.
Karingana ua karingana. Lourenço Marques: Académica, 1974. 2nd Edition, Maputo:
INLD, 1982. 3rd Edition, Maputo: AEMO, 1996.
1. Maputo: INLD, 1980 (Poems from prison, in the style of those who wrote the
Angolans António Jacinto and António Cardoso.
The Chosen One. Moscow: Young Guard, 1984.
Maria. Lisbon: ALAC (Africa, Literature, Art and Culture), 1988 (Poems dedicated to
deceased woman, selection from among many dozens, according to information from
author.)
The Howlers of the Hyenas. Maputo: AEMO, 1996.
Hamina and other tales. Maputo: Ndjira, 1997.
Maria. Vol. 2.
Poems from Prison, Lisbon, Texto Editora, 2004.
Erotic Poems. Mozambique Publisher/Text Editors, 2004 (posthumous edition, under
responsibility of Fátima Mendonça
MIA COUTO
Life
Mia Couto, pseudonym of António Emílio Leite Couto (Beira, July 5, 1955), is a
Mozambican biologist and writer
Mia Couto was born and educated in Beira, the capital city of the province of Sofala.
Mozambique – Africa. He adopted his pseudonym because he had a passion for cats and
because your brother did not know how to pronounce his name. At fourteen years old, he had
some poems published in the newspaper "Notícias da Beira" and three years later, in 1971,
moved to the capital city of Lourenço Marques (now Maputo). Started studies
university students in medicine, but abandoned this area at the beginning of the third year, moving on to
to practice the profession of journalist after April 25, 1974. Worked at Tribuna until the
destruction of its facilities in September 1975, by settlers who opposed to the
independence. He was appointed director of the Mozambique Information Agency (AIM) and
established correspondence links between the Mozambican provinces during the time of
liberation war. He then worked as the director of the magazine Tempo until 1981 and continued
the career at the newspaper Notícias until 1985. In 1983, she published her first poetry book, Raiz
of Orvalho, which, according to some interpretations, includes poems against propaganda
militant Marxist. Two years later, he resigned from the position of director to continue the
university studies in the field of biology.
Works
Mia Couto has an extensive and diverse literary work, including poetry, short stories, novels, and
chronicles.
Poems
Dew Root
Ages Cities Divinities
Rain Translator
Tales
Voices of the Night
Path, in 1987;
Each Man is a Race
Bedtime Stories
Tales of the Birth of the Earth
On the Burma of No Road
The Thread of Beads
Chronicles
Chronicling
The Country of Complaint Walk (2003)
Hobbies. Opinion Texts
And if Obama were African? and Other Interventions.
Romances
Sleepwalking Land
The Frangipani Veranda
Sea You Love Me
Twenty and Zinc
The Last Flight of the Flamingo
The Cat and the Dark
A River Called Time, a House Called Earth
The Amazed Rain
The Other Foot of the Mermaid
The kiss of the little word
God's Poisons, Devil's Remedies (2008)
Jerusalem [in Brazil, the book is titled Before the World Was Born] (2009)
The Confession of the Lioness (2012)
THE HORSES OF THE KHOSA
Life
Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa (pseudonym of Francisco Esaú Cossa), (Inhaminga, August 1st
1957) is a writer and professor from Mozambique.
Khosa completed primary education in the province of Sofala and secondary education, part in Lourenço.
Marques and part in Zambézia. In Maputo, he obtains a degree in History and Geography at
Faculty of Education of Eduardo Mondlane University and served as a professor
of secondary education.
In 1982, he worked for the Ministry of Education for a year and a half. Six months later
after leaving the Ministry of Education, he is invited to work at the Association of
Mozambican Writers (AEMO), of which he is a member.
He began his career as a writer with the publication of several short stories and participated in
foundation of the Charrua magazine of AEMO.
It was the reality experienced in Niassa and Cabo Delgado, where there were areas of camps of
reeducation that was poorly organized, which made him lean more towards literature and, therefore,
felt the need to write to talk and expose this reality to people.
Works
Ualalapi, 1987;
Orgia dos Loucos, 19902;
Stories of Love and Dread
In the Kingdom of Vultures, 2002;
The Survivors of the Night, 2007
Choriro, 2009;
Among the Silenced Memories, 2013
Sulemanane Cassamo
Life
Suleiman Cassamo (Marracuene, November 2, 1962) is a writer and teacher.
Mozambican.
Graduated in Mechanical Engineering, Suleiman Cassamo is a member of the Association of
Mozambican writers, of which he was the secretary-general from 1997 to 1999.
He published short stories and articles in magazines such as Charrua, Gazeta de Artes e Letras, Eco,
who was a founder and member of the Editorial Board, Forja, and at the newspaper Notícias.
Works
The Return of the Dead. (Stories)
Preface by Marcelo Panguana.
Maputo, Association of Mozambican Writers, 1989. Karingana Collection.
Lisbon, Editorial Caminho, 1997. ISBN 972-21-1098-5
Translation into French with the title The Return of the Dead. Paris, Chandeigne/Unesco.
1994
São Paulo, Kapulana Publishing, 2016. ISBN 978-85-68846-11-7
Baobab Love. (Chronicles)
Lisbon, Editorial Caminho, 1997. ISBN 972-21-1152-3
Maputo, Ndjira, 1998
Lecture for a Dead Person. (Novel)
Lisbon, Editorial Caminho, 1999. ISBN 972-21-1292-9
Maputo, Ndjira, 2000
Eduardo White
Eduardo White (Quelimane, 1963 - August 24, 2014) was a poet from Mozambique.
He was born in Quelimane in 1963, son of a Portuguese mother and a father of English descent.
He was a member of the Mozambican Writers Association - AEMO.
Your poetry has been displayed at the Val-du-Marne museum in Paris since 1989. In 2001 it was
considered in Mozambique as the literary figure of the year.
In 2013, he won the Glória de Sant'Anna Literary Prize.
Lost his life on August 24, 2014.
At the concert celebrating Rui Veloso's 35 years of career, held on the 6th of
In November 2015, the musician premiered a song called From My Country with lyrics by the poet.
Mozambican Eduardo Costly-White.
Works
To Love the Indian Ocean (1984)
Homoíne (1987)
Country of Me (1990); Gazeta Prize Tempo magazine
Poems of the Science of Flying and the Engineering of Being a Bird (1992); National Award
Poetry
The Materials of Love Followed by The Challenge to Sadness (1996)
Window to the East (1999)
Sleeping with God and a Ship on the Tongue (2001); bilingual Portuguese/English; Award
Consecration Rui de Noronha (Labyrinth Publisher)
The Words of the Scorpion (soap opera; 2002)
The Man, the Shadow, and the Flower and Some Letters from the Interior (2004)
The Manual of Hands (2004); Great José Craveirinha Literature Prize, Prize
TVZine for Literature
Until Tomorrow Heart
From the Yellow Lemons of the Phallus, to the Red Oranges of the Vulva (2009); Award
Letter Correspondence
Nudos (2011), Anthology of his poetic work
The Libreto of Misery (2010-2012)
The Lunar Mechanics and The Restless Writing (2012)
The Diary Poet and the Disillusioned Ascetics (2012) Glória de Sant'Anna Prize
Good Morning, Day (2014)
Orlando Marques Almeida Mendes
Life
Orlando Marques de Almeida Mendes (Island of Mozambique, August 4, 1916 - Maputo,
January 11, 1990) was a Mozambican biologist and writer.
He graduated in biology from the University of Coimbra, where he worked as an assistant.
botany. Back in Mozambique, he was a plant pathologist and worked at the Ministry of Agriculture
as a researcher of traditional medicine.
He debuted in literature under the influence of neorealism and the Presence movement. He promoted the
Mozambican literature, at the forefront of the Association of Writers of Mozambique and also
with your work as an editor.
Won the Fialho de Almeida Prize, the prize of the Floral Games of the University of
Coimbra (1946) and the Poetry Prize in the literary contest of the Municipal Chamber of
Lourenço Marques.
Works
Poetry
Trajectories, Coimbra, 1940
Climate
After the 7th Day, Lourenço Marques, Tribuna Publications, 1963
Therefore I write to you, Viseu/Portugal, author edition, 1964
Confident Eve, Lourenço Marques, Academic Bookstore, 1968
Goodbye from Gutucumbui, Lourenço Marques, Academica, 1974
The Hunger of the Larvae, Lourenço Marques, Academica, 1975
Emerging Country I, Lourenço Marques, Modern Company, 1975
Emerging Country II, Maputo, author's edition, 1976
Production With Which I Learn, Maputo, National Institute of Books and Records, 1978
The visited faces, Maputo, AEMO, 1985
Light Florindo in the Forge, Maputo, INLD, 1980
Romance
Portagem, Beira, News from Beira, 1966
Theater
A Minute of Silence, Theater, Beira, News from Beira, 1970
Essays
About Mozambican literature, Maputo, INLD, 1982
Childish
Worker Dad and Six Other Stories
The boy who did not grow, Maputo, INLD, 1986
Calane da Silva
Raul Alves Calane da Silva (Lourenço Marques, October 20, 1945 - Maputo, 29 of
January 2021) was a Mozambican poet, writer, and journalist.
Calane da Silva coordinated the Arts and Letters Gazette of Tempo magazine in 1985, and was head of
draft of the Experimental Television of Mozambique, in 1987. He was also a member of the
direction of the Association of Mozambican Writers. Also directed the Cultural Center
Brazil-Mozambique, in Maputo.
After a few days hospitalized in the Mozambican capital in January 2021, Calane da Silva
died as a victim of COVID-19
Works
The Boys of Malanga. Maputo: Cadernos Tempo, 1982.
Poetry
Xicandarinha in the firewood of the world. Maputo: Association of Mozambican Writers.
1988. Karingana Collection.
Tales. Cover of Chichorro.
Looking at Mozambique. Maputo: Photography Training Center, 1994
Drops of Sun.
Winner of the literary contest 'November 10 Prize', organized jointly
by the Municipal Council of the City of Maputo and by the Writers' Association
Mozambicans during the anniversary of the capital of Mozambique.
The Pedagogy of the Lexicon. The Stylish Craveirinha. The Bantu lexical choices, the
Luso-Rongan neologisms and their stylistic and aesthetic-nationalist function in works
Xigubo and Karingana of Karingana. Maputo: University Press, 2002.
To kill the beast: Texts published in the weekly 'The African Shout'. Lisbon: Text
Editors, 2006
Nyembêtu or the Colors of Tears
Pomar and Machamba or Words. Maputo: University Press, 2009.
João Searching for the Word Poetry
From lexicon to the possibility of isotopic literary fields. Doctoral thesis.
Albino Magaia
Albino Fragoso Francisco Magaia (Lourenço Marques, now Maputo, February 27
1947 - March 27, 2010) was a Mozambican journalist, poet, and writer.
In his youth, he was a member of the African Secondary Students' Core.
Mozambique (NESAM).
He was the director of the weekly Tempo and the secretary-general of the Association of Writers.
Mozambicans.
Works
Thus in the fallen time. Maputo, National Institute of Book and Record, 1982.
(poetry)[1]
Oh Mabalane!. Maputo, Tempo Notebooks, 1983. (novel)
Preface by Gilberto Matusse.
Malungate. Maputo, Association of Mozambican Writers, 1987. Collection
Karingana. (novel)
Armando Artur
Armando Artur (or Armando Artur João) (Alto Molócuè, Zambézia, December 28
1962) is a Mozambican poet.
Works
