Aldino Muianga (born 1 May 1950) is a Mozambican physician and writer. [1]
Aldino Muianga (born 1 May 1950) is a Mozambican physician and writer. [1]
Muianga was born in Lourenço Marques. He studied surgery and he is the national coordinator of Mozambican Community Work. He is presently a professor in the field of medicine in the University of Pretoria, South Africa.
He is married to Carolina Teresa de Sousa. They have 3 children: Hugo Miguel Muianga, Aldino Frederico de Sousa Muianga, and Mick Ivan de Sousa Muianga.
José Cardoso was a Portuguese author of short stories, novels, plays, and political satire.
José Craveirinha was a Mozambican journalist, story writer and poet, who is today considered the greatest poet of Mozambique. His poems, written in Portuguese, address such issues as racism and the Portuguese colonial domination of Mozambique. A supporter of the anti-Portuguese group FRELIMO during the colonial wars, he was imprisoned in the 1960s. He was one of the African pioneers of the Négritude movement, and published six books of poetry between 1964 and 1997. Craveirinha also wrote under the pseudonyms Mário Vieira, José Cravo, Jesuíno Cravo, J. Cravo, J.C., Abílio Cossa, and José G. Vetrinha.
Paulina "Poulli" Chiziane is an author of novels and short stories in the Portuguese language. She studied at Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo. She was born to a Protestant family that moved from Gaza to the capital Maputo during the writer's early childhood. At home she spoke Chopi and Ronga.
Francisco Esaú Cossa is a Mozambican writer born August 1, 1957, in Inhaminga, Sofala Province. Khosa completed elementary school in Sofala, and high school in Zambezia. In Maputo he attended Eduardo Mondlane University, receiving a bachelor's degree in History and Geography. He then worked as a high school teacher.
Lília Maria Clara Carrièrre Momplé is a Mozambican writer.
Lúcia Benedetti – was a Brazilian storyteller, writer of Children's Literature, novelist, playwright, chronicler and translator.
Fernando Monteiro de Castro Soromenho was a Portuguese journalist and writer of fiction and ethnology. He is regarded both as a Portuguese neo-realist and a novelist of Angolan literature.
Nilto Maciel was a Brazilian writer. He wrote poetry and tales in Portuguese, Esperanto, Spanish, Italian and French.
Benjamin Abdala Júnior is a Brazilian writer, scholar, and literary critic. His first book, A Escrita Neo-Realista, was published in 1981. He published the book Antologia da Poesia Brasileira - Realismo/Parnasianismo in 1985. He has written over 40 published books and hundreds of chapters in book collection,articles in newspapers and literary magazines .He has worked with the main Brazilian Scientific Agencies evaluating scholarships and grants requested by researchers from the main Brazilian universities. Benjamin has also lived in Portugal and France, where he expanded his research and gave lectures on Comparative, Portuguese and African Literatures. He has been invited to the main universities in Africa, China, United States, Canada, France, England, Portugal, Austria, Tchecoslovaquia, Russia and Chile, giving lectures on African Literatures of Portuguese Speaking Countries, Comparative Literature, Neo-realism in Portugal and Brazil, among other subjects. Grandson of Lebanese immigrants, he received a Merit Medal celebrating 130 years of Middle Eastern Immigration to South America from BibliASPA - Biblioteca e Centro de Pesquisa América do Sul - Países Árabes. He has 3 children and 3 grandchildren, and lives in São Paulo. He is retired from University of São Paulo after 35 years of contribution as professor and administrator, but he is still actively involved in the Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras and Ciencias Humanas as a researcher.
Luiz Fernando Ruffato de Souza is a contemporary Brazilian writer. An alumnus of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, Ruffato worked as a journalist in São Paulo and published several fiction books including Historia das Remorsos e Rancores (1998) and Eles eram muitos cavalos [They were Many Horses] (2001). The latter book garnered the APCA literary prize.
Tristão de Alencar Araripe Júnior was a Brazilian lawyer, literary critic, and writer.
Vila Algarve is a residential house in the Mozambican capital Maputo. Built in 1934 and later protected as a listed building, the building housed the Portuguese secret police PIDE/DGS until the end of the Portuguese colonial period in Mozambique. It is located at the intersection of Avenida Mártires da Machava and Avenida Ahmed Sekou Touré.
Silviano Santiago is a Brazilian writer, literary critic, essayist and scholar.
Maria Beatriz Fonseca Corrêa do Lago, better known as Bia Corrêa do Lago is a Brazilian writer, journalist and researcher. She is the daughter of writer Rubem Fonseca, who was awarded the highest literary award in the Portuguese language – the Prêmio Camões – and is the author of numerous books, including Agosto, O Caso Morel, O Cobrador, and Bufo & Spallanzani.
José Tolentino Calaça de Mendonça is a Portuguese prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. A theologian and university professor, he is also regarded as one of the most original voices of modern Portuguese literature and a Catholic intellectual. His work includes poetry, essays and plays that he signs José Tolentino Mendonça.
Hirondina Juliana Francisco Joshua, best known as Hirondina Joshua, is a Mozambican poet, writer, member of Associação dos Escritores Moçambicanos. She is part of the new generation of Mozambican authors.
Camilo de Sousa is a film-maker from Mozambique, and has participated in hundreds of cinematographic productions, variously as producer, director, or first assistant. He is particularly noted for co-directing the feature film O Tempo dos Leopardos.
João dos Santos Albasini, also named in Ronga as Nwandzengele, was an influential Mozambican journalist, writer, and political activist who advocated for the rights of indigenous Africans under Portuguese colonial rule in Lourenço Marques. He was one of the founding members of the political group O Grêmio Africano and editor, director and frequent contributor to the organization's political newspapers O Africano and O Brado Africano.
Inocência Luciano dos Santos Mata is a Lisbon-based essayist and academic from São Tomé and Príncipe. Her work as a professor and researcher at the University of Lisbon's School of Letters is focused on Portuguese-language literature and post-colonial studies.
Raúl Alves Calane da Silva was a Mozambican writer, journalist, and poet.
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