Terra Sonâmbula

Neustadt International · 2014 · Winner

CaminhoJanuary 1, 1992Literary Fiction

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Neustadt International Prize for Literature	2014	Winner

About This Book

Set during the Mozambican civil war, an old man and a young boy take shelter in a burned-out bus and read a dead man's notebooks, in a novel considered one of the ten best African books of the twentieth century.

About the Author

Mia CoutoMZ

Mia Couto is a Mozambican novelist and biologist born in 1955 in Beira. Born António Emílio Leite Couto, he is the most internationally celebrated Mozambican writer and one of the most important voices in African literature writing in Portuguese. He writes under the pen name Mia Couto, which he adopted in his youth. Read more →