Mia Couto
b. 1955 · Mozambique · Literature, Biology
Biologist-novelist who reinvented Portuguese in Mozambican terms.
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- Ahmadou Kourouma
1927 – 2003 · Literature
Breaking the colonial language from inside is the technique they share across Francophone and Lusophone Africa.
- Gabriel García Márquez
1927 – 2014 · Literature
Magical realism reaches Mozambican Portuguese in Couto's invented lexicon.
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