Mia Couto’s somber and masterfully wrought novel “Confession of the Lioness” examines a village in danger, a place where “the border between order and chaos was being erased.” Women of Kulumani, a ...

Mia Couto, Author, David Brookshaw, Translator; trans. from the Portuguese by David Brookshaw. Serpent's Tail $14.95 (213p) ISBN 978-1-85242-897-6 Heralded as one of the 12 best African books of the ...

Couto’s language is enriched by his country’s idioms, voices — and possibilities. “We are still in the process of creating one nation,” he said, made of “different languages, different beliefs.” By ...

Mozambican author Mia Couto has picked up some impressive hardware in recent years. In 2014 he was given the prestigious Neustadt Prize, good for $50,000 and international recognition. The year before ...

In the Folha de São Paulo, we read the text “Africans were not only victims of colonization, says writer Mia Couto.” In it, we can see that “It is necessary to look at Africa with its complexity, ...

About a third of the way into "Confession of the Lioness" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 208 pp., $25), Mia Couto quotes an African proverb: "Every morning the gazelle wakes up knowing that it has to run ...

Lusophone Africa’s most successful writer discusses his hopes for conservation after the death of Cecil the lion, and his memories of Mozambique’s bloody civil war Such is the power of Mia Couto’s ...

The Mozambican novelist and poet Mia Couto is the winner of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, the biennial award that’s often referred to as the “American Nobel.” “Mia Couto” is the nom ...

In 2007, Mozambican writer Mia Couto was the first African writer to win the Latin Union prize, and six years later he walked off with the 100,000 euro Camões Prize for Portuguese language literature.

Mia Couto’s latest novel includes a fable about a bat who falls from the sky. Injured, he is rescued by birds and sent to their king, but rejected because he is not one of them. Some mice try to save ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In April of this year, the poet and novelist Mia Couto wrote an open letter to the president of South Africa, Jacob ...