“We have already found a place and I can put my own personal library in there and open it to the people of the island. It’s been a dream for a long time.”
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José Eduardo Agualusa
José Eduardo Agualusa Alves da Cunha is an Angolan writer and columnist of Portuguese and Brazilian descent. He studied agronomy and silviculture in Lisbon, Portugal. Currently he resides in the Island of Mozambique, working as a writer and journalist. He also has been working to establish a public library on the island.
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culture · Angolan journalist and writer (born 1960) · writer · journalist · also José Eduardo Agualusa, Jose Eduardo Agualusa, José Eduardo Agualusa Alves da Cunha, Agualusa
Born 13 December 1960 · Q363927
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2026· 2 entries
Estado de Minas: Alexandre Coimbra Amaral e José Eduardo Agualusa lançam livros em BH
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2025· 2 entries
globo: Mia Couto, José Eduardo Agualusa e a brasileira Silvana Tavano estão entre os finalistas do Oceanos
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Scroll: Sunday book pick: Dreams of freedom in ‘The Society of Reluctant Dreamers’ by José Eduardo Agualusa
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2024· 3 entries
Estado de Minas: José Eduardo Agualusa apresenta seu novo romance na Fliti, em Tiradentes
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publico: José Eduardo Agualusa: “Não é a História que me interessa, são os vazios”
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Jornal de Negócios: José Eduardo Agualusa: O tempo da grande corrupção em Angola acabou
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2021· 1 entry
Moviefone: José Eduardo Agualusa
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2012· 1 entry
And translated in 2015, was shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker International Prize, and was the recipient of the 2017 International Dublin Literary Award
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2009· 3 entries
Awarded Order of Cultural Merit (Brazil) (2009).
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Diário de Notícias: José Eduardo Agualusa espreita o trágico futuro de Luanda
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Was invited by the Dutch Residency for Writers in Amsterdam, where he wrote Barroco Tropical
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2006· 1 entry
Launched, with Conceição Lopes and Fatima Otero, the Brazilian publisher Língua Geral, dedicated exclusively to Portuguese-language authors
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1999· 1 entry
Awarded Grande Prémio de Conto Camilo Castelo Branco (1999).
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1997· 1 entry
To write Nação Crioula (Creole); the second given in the year 2000 by the Portuguese Fundação Oriente allowing him to visit Goa, India, for three months which resulted in Um estranho em Goa; the third, in 2001, was prest
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1960· 1 entry
Born 1960-12-13.
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