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Mia Couto
António Emílio Leite Couto, better known as Mia Couto, 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.
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culture · Mozambican writer (born 1955) · writer · biologist · journalist · novelist · poet · children's writer · author · editor-in-chief · also Mia Couto, António Emílio Leite Couto, Antonio Emilio Leite Couto, Couto
Born 5 July 1955 · Q382101
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2026· 7 entries
“A writer does not create a world; he discovers the worlds hidden inside people.”
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“Exílio e identidade: uma leitura de Antes de nascer o mundo, de Mia Couto”
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“The greatest poverty is the inability to dream.”
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“We do not inherit only a country. We inherit the responsibility to imagine it.”
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“Every language carries a way of seeing the world.”
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“Writing is not about giving answers. It is about learning how to ask better questions.”
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2025· 3 entries
dnoticias.pt: Mia Couto apela a uma maior cooperação entre Portugal e Moçambique
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Awarded Prix Laure Bataillon (2025).
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publico: Mia Couto é o convidado do Encontro de Leituras de Abril
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2024· 4 entries
Radio France Internationale: Mia Couto: "A relação colonial entre Europa e África mantém-se actual"
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Observador: Mia Couto vence prémio da Feira Internacional do Livro de Guadalajara
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Awarded FIL Award (2024).
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Published “Global burden of 288 causes of death and life expectancy decomposition in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021” in The Lancet — cited 2,589 times.
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2023· 1 entry
Estado de Minas: Mia Couto lança livro no Brasil e vem a Minas participar da FliParacatu
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2022· 3 entries
IJNet: Mia Couto: "O jornalismo tem que reconquistar o seu papel na construção de um mundo melhor”
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CounterPunch: Mia Couto and the African Guilt Slavery
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Published “Estimation of the global prevalence of dementia in 2019 and forecasted prevalence in 2050: an analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019” in The Lancet Public Health — cited 4,497 times.
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2021· 2 entries
Publishers Weekly: Books by Mia Couto and Complete Book Reviews
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Published “Causes of blindness and vision impairment in 2020 and trends over 30 years, and prevalence of avoidable blindness in relation to VISION 2020: the Right to Sight: an analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study” in The Lancet Global Health — cited 2,572 times.
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2020· 3 entries
Notícias ao Minuto: Novo livro de Mia Couto é uma viagem ao passado e às "ausências"
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Awarded Jan Michalski Prize (2020).
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Awarded Prix Albert-Bernard (2020).
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2019· 1 entry
“O outro pé da sereia: the dialogue between history and fiction in the representation of contemporary Africa”
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2018· 1 entry
“Entre capulanas e silêncios: as mulheres em A confissão da leoa e Jesusalém de Mia Couto.”
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2017· 2 entries
globo: Mia Couto: “O envelhecimento é uma desistência do desejo de ser um outro”
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JSTOR Daily: A Companion to Mia Couto
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2014· 1 entry
Awarded Neustadt International Prize for Literature (2014).
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2013· 2 entries
Awarded Camões Prize (2013).
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The most important literary award in the Portuguese language, and the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2014
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2012· 1 entry
Awarded Prix Tropiques (2012).
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2009· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Cultural Merit (Brazil) (2009).
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2007· 1 entry
Became the first African author to win the prestigious Latin Union literary prize, which has been awarded annually in Italy since 1990
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1999· 1 entry
Awarded Prémio Vergílio Ferreira (1999).
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1998· 1 entry
Couto was elected to the Brazilian Academy of Letters, the first African writer to receive such an honour
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1974· 1 entry
FRELIMO asked Couto to suspend his studies for a year to work as a journalist for Tribuna until September 1975 and then as the director of the newly created Mozambique Information Agency (AIM)
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1971· 1 entry
Moved to the capital Lourenço Marques (now Maputo) and began to study medicine at the University of Lourenço Marques
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1955· 1 entry
Born 1955-07-05.
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