Neustadt prize mia couto biography
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Noted Mozambican Author Mia Couto Wins Neustadt International Prize for Literature
NORMAN, OKLA., Nov. 1, – Mozambican author António Emílio Leite Couto (Mia Couto) has been chosen bygd a jury of nine international authors to receive the Neustadt International Prize for Literature.
The $50, prize is sponsored by the University of Oklahoma, the Neustadt family, and World Literature Today, the university’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture.
Jurors convened on the OU Norman campus for deliberations Oct. 31 as part of the annual Neustadt Festival for International Literature and Culture.
Gabriella Ghermandi, who nominated Couto for the Neustadt Prize, said of him, “He fryst vatten an author who addresses not just his country but the entire world, all human beings.”
Couto fryst vatten the first Mozambican author to be nominated for and to win the Neustadt Prize. He fryst vatten considered to be one of the most important writers in Mozambique, and his works have been published in mo
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Re-enchanting the World: The Neustadt Prize Acceptance Speech
One of the most prominent writers in Portuguese-speaking Africa, Mia Couto was born in in Beira, Mozambique. Couto studied medicine and biology in Maputo and began his literary career during the struggle for Mozambique’s independence.
The first Mozambican author to be nominated for and to win the Neustadt Prize, Couto has also received many other literary prizes, including the Prémio Vergílio Ferreira (), the Prémio União Latina de Literaturas Românicas (), and the Camões Prize for Literature (), a prestigious award given to Portuguese-language writers. In he was elected to the Brazilian Academy of Letters, the first African writer to receive this honor, and in he was decorated with the Order of St. James of the Sword in Portugal and the Order of Rio Branco in Brazil.
The author or co-author of more than thirty books—including novels; story, essay, and verse collections; and children’s books—Couto has also worked
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Mia Couto was born in in Beira, Sofala province, Mozambique. He lived there until he was 17, when he went to Lourenço Marques to study Medicine. He interrupted the course to start a journalistic career that went on till On his own initiative, he returned to university to study biology, graduating in Up till now he works as a biologist in Mozambique.
He has published more than 30 books that are translated and edited in thirty different countries. His books cover many genres ranging from romance to poetry, from short stories to children’s books. He has received dozens of awards in his career, including – twice – the National Prize for Literature, the Camões Prize and the Neustadt Prize, considered the ‘US Nobel’. In he was a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize. His novel Terra Sonâmbula was chosen by an international jury convened in Zimbabwe as one of the ‘10 Best African Books of the Twentieth Century.&