Pensativities: Selected Essays by Couto, Mia

Pensativities: Selected Essays (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781771960076)

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Pensativities: Selected Essays by Couto, Mia

Pensativities: Selected Essays

$18.95
Pensativities: Selected Essays by Couto, Mia

Pensativities: Selected Essays

$18.95
Format: Paperback
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BY THE FINALIST FOR THE 2015 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE
THE WINNER OF THE 2014 NEUSTADT PRIZE
AND THE WINNER OF THE 2013 CAMﾕES PRIZE

"One of the greatest living writers in the Portuguese language."--Philip Graham, The Millions

What would Barack Obama's 2004 campaign have looked like if it unfolded in an African nation? What does it mean to be an African writer today? How do writers and poets from all continents teach us to cross the sert縊, the savannah, the barren places where we're forced to walk within ourselves? Bringing together the best pieces from his previously untranslated nonfiction collections, alongside new material presented here for the first time in any language, Pensativities offers English readers a taste of Mia Couto as essayist, lecturer, and journalist--with essays on cosmopolitanism, poverty, culture gaps, conservation, and more.



Author: Mia Couto
ISBN-10: 1771960078
ISBN-13: 9781771960076
Publisher: Biblioasis
Language: English
Published: 08/11/2015
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.30h x 4.90w x 0.40d
By Mia Couto
By Mia Couto
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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 Cams 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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