An Interview with José Eduardo Agualusa José Eduardo Agualusa, 46, is a growing name in world literature. Born in Huambo, Angola, Agualusa has already been embraced across the Portuguese-speaking literary world—especially in Brazil and Portugal, where his novel Creole was a best seller and awarded the Portuguese Grand Prize for Literature. Now that he has received this year's Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in the U.K. for his latest novel, The Book of Chameleons, readers in English, too, may finally begin to appreciate his elaborate and intelligent prose. Agualusa, who studied agronomy and forestry before turning to literature, began his writing career as a poet. He is the author of the poetry collection At the Heart of the Forests,