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Mia Couto

Mozambican writer · Mozambique · On the map · Writers · Born 1955 · age 71

António Emílio Leite Couto, better known as Mia Couto, is a Mozambican writer. He won the Camões Prize in 2013, the most important literary award in the Portuguese language, and the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2014.

Mia Couto is read about 176 times a day, in 31 languages.

A typical day, 30 days to 10 November 2026

The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 114 days, one point a day.

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2025Prix Laure BataillonAward2024FIL AwardAward2020Jan Michalski PrizeAwardPrix Albert-BernardAward2014Neustadt International Prize for LiteratureAward2013Camões PrizeAward2012Prix TropiquesAward2009Order of Cultural Merit (Brazil)Award1999Prémio Vergílio FerreiraAward1955Born5 July 1955

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Prix Laure Bataillon2025
FIL Award2024
Prix Albert-Bernard2020
Jan Michalski Prize2020
Neustadt International Prize for Literature2014
Camões Prize2013
Prix Tropiques2012
Order of Cultural Merit (Brazil)2009
Prémio Vergílio Ferreira1999
Commander of the Military Order of Saint James of the Sword

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Country
Mozambique
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Living
Dates
Born 1955 · age 71

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