Mia Couto wins prestigious literary prize in Mexico
Published: Monday, Sep 2nd 2024, 22:20
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The Mozambican writer Mia Couto has been awarded the important FIL Prize for Literature at the Guadalajara International Book Fair in Mexico. The jury honored the author of the novel "The Confession of the Lioness" for his "outstanding literary work" in Portuguese, which raises awareness and sensitivity for the African continent and its historical, cultural and geopolitical relations.
The prize, endowed with 150,000 US dollars (around 135 million euros), will be awarded on November 30 at the opening of the Guadalajara Book Fair, the largest literary event in the Spanish-speaking world. The 69-year-old Couto, whose full name is António Emílio Leite Couto, won the prestigious Camões Prize, the most important literary award in the Portuguese-speaking world, in 2013.
Born in Beira, Mozambique in 1955 to a Portuguese couple, the novelist, poet and short story writer's books are strongly influenced by Brazilian authors such as Jorge Amado and Carlos Drummond de Andrade as well as Latin American "magical realism". Some of Couto's books have been published in German, including "Das Schlafwandelnde Land" (dipa, Frankfurt am Main 1994) and "Unter dem Frangipanibaum" (Unionsverlag, Zurich 2007).
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