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Honwana, Luís Bernardo, 1942-

LC control no.n 87898862
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LC classificationPQ9939.H65
Personal name headingHonwana, Luís Bernardo, 1942-
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Associated countryMozambique
Associated placePortugal South Africa
Birth date1942
Place of birthLourenço Marques (Mozambique)
AffiliationUnesco
FRELIMO (Organization)
Profession or occupationJournalists Authors Cabinet officers
Found inHis Nós matamos o Cão-Tinhoso, 1980: t.p. (Luís Bernardo Honwana)
LC in RLIN, 9-17-87 (Honwana, Luís Bernardo, 1942- )
Wikipedia, viewed May 2, 2017 (Luis Bernardo Honwana (born 1942 in Lourenço Marques (present-day Maputo), Mozambique) is Mozambican author and statesman; became a militant with FRELIMO in 1964, incarcerated for 3 years; studied law in Portugal, worked as a journalist; director of President's office under Samora Machel, then Secretary of State for Culture in 1981; on the Executive Board of UNESCO 1987-1991, chairman of its Intergovernmental Committee for the World Decade for Culture and Development; appointed director of the newly opened UNESCO office in South Africa in 1995; retired from UNESCO in 2002, has been active in research in the arts, history and ethnolinguistics; author of a single book, Nós Matamos o Cão-Tinhoso (1964), a collection of short stories set in the 1960s colonial era)
Associated languagepor