Mia Couto, pron. (b.5 July 1955 Beira, Mozambique), is considered this southeast African nation's foremost creative writer. His works in Portuguese, Mozambique's official language, have been published in more than 22 countries and have been widely translated. He was born António Emílio Leite Couto to white Portuguese settlers in 1955, during the colonial period. Aside from his native Portuguese, he also speaks Ndau and English as second languages. Wikipedia
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Mia Couto , a novelist, journalist, and scientist, is the first white writer I've ever read who, to my eyes, pierces that veil. The Last Flight of the Flamingo (Serpent's Tail), Couto's odd, dislocating novel about his native Mozambique, keeps tilting yo articles.citypages.com/2005-09-07/books/mia-couto-and-the...
Mia Couto , one of Mozambique's most prolific and best known authors, was born in 1955 in the Mozambican city of Beira. In the early 1970's he moved to Maputo to begin medical studies but did not continue because of his involvement in the independence st www.gng.org/mozambique/about_mozambique/mia_couto.html
He has a stepdaughter from Patrícia first marriage named Luciana. He and Patrícia are parents of a girl named Rita. Mia has a son from his first marriage named Maydo Dawany. In 1974 he started to work in journalism in "Diário de Notícias" of Mozambique. H www.imdb.com/name/nm0184241/
«. Three years later he began to study Medicine and then worked as a journalist. After Mozambique had achieved independence from Portugal, Couto became the director of the news agency AIM and worked as the editor in chief of the newspapers à ... « www.literaturfestival.com/bios1_3_6_727.html