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In The Drinker of Horizons, the award-winning author Mia Couto brings the epic love story between a young Mozambican woman named Imani and the Portuguese

The President of the Regional Government of the Azores José Manuel Bolieiro joined UMass Dartmouth’s Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture officials on Monday to celebrate the creation of the Bellis Azorica book series featuring works by Azorean authors in translation.

Book: ‘Sea Loves Me: Selected Stories’ by Mia Couto – Editor’s Note Posted on 04 May 2021. Known internationally for his novels, Neustadt Prize-winner Mia Couto first became famous for his short stories. Sea Loves Me includes sixty-four of his best, thirty-six of which appear in English for the first time. Covering the entire arc of Couto’s career, this collection displays the Mozambican author’s inventiveness, sensitivity, and social range with greater richness than any previous collection―from early stories that reflect the harshness of life under Portuguese colonialism; to m...

The jury has praised the “exceptional quality of the writing, which subtly mixes orality and  narrative, letters, tales, fables, dreams, and beliefs that are at the heart of a historical reality—that of Mozambique in the late 19th century as it grapples with Portuguese  colonization. “The author excels at portraying with  great empathy characters faced with the inhumanity of war, offering them an epic inspiration out of the lush natural world of Africa.” The French edition translated by Elisabeth Monteiro Rodrigues In winning the award, Couto is the recipient of 50,000 Swiss francs...