Photo credit: Tara Tobler.

Mia Couto

Photo credit: Tara Tobler.

Mia Couto

Mia Couto, born in Beira, Mozambique, directed the Mozambican state news agency during the years following independence from Portugal. Since the late 1980s, he has worked as an environmental biologist and a writer. Couto is the author of more than thirty books, which have been published in thirty-five countries. He has won major literary prizes including the 2013 Camōes Prize and the 2014 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. He was a finalist for the 2015 Man Booker International Prize and the 2017 International Dublin Literary Award. Mia Couto lives with his family in Maputo, Mozambique, where he works as an environmental consultant.

Mia Couto is published by Biblioasis

Photo credit: Tara Tobler.

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Sea Loves Me by Mia Couto, 2021

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