Pensativities

Selected Essays

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, African, Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Nature, Environment, Environmental Conservation & Protection, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science
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Author: Mia Couto ISBN: 9781771960069
Publisher: Biblioasis Publication: August 3, 2015
Imprint: Biblioasis Language: English
Author: Mia Couto
ISBN: 9781771960069
Publisher: Biblioasis
Publication: August 3, 2015
Imprint: Biblioasis
Language: English

First collection of Mia Couto's essays to appear in English

Gathers journalism, talks, op-eds, essays, and opinion-pieces from over the course of his career

Mia Couto's works have been translated into 20 languages and have sold nearly 2 million copies worldwide

Winner of the $50,000 Neustadt Prize for Literature, 2014 (World Literature Today)

Winner of the €100,000 Camões Prize for Literature, 2013

Contender in the 2014 Tournament of Books (against James McBride)

Widely regarded as one of Africa's foremost contemporary novelists, comparable to Coetzee

First African author to be awarded the Latin Union Award of Romanic Languages (2007)

The Tuner of Silences was recognized as one of the 20 most important books to be published in France in 2011

Possible promotion at MLA

Mature work from an author widely regarded as one of the best prose stylists writing in Portuguese today

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First collection of Mia Couto's essays to appear in English

Gathers journalism, talks, op-eds, essays, and opinion-pieces from over the course of his career

Mia Couto's works have been translated into 20 languages and have sold nearly 2 million copies worldwide

Winner of the $50,000 Neustadt Prize for Literature, 2014 (World Literature Today)

Winner of the €100,000 Camões Prize for Literature, 2013

Contender in the 2014 Tournament of Books (against James McBride)

Widely regarded as one of Africa's foremost contemporary novelists, comparable to Coetzee

First African author to be awarded the Latin Union Award of Romanic Languages (2007)

The Tuner of Silences was recognized as one of the 20 most important books to be published in France in 2011

Possible promotion at MLA

Mature work from an author widely regarded as one of the best prose stylists writing in Portuguese today

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