| LC control no. | n 88270440 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PQ9939.C64 |
| Personal name heading | Coelho, João Paulo Borges |
| Variant(s) | Borges Coelho, João Paulo |
| Associated country | Mozambique Portugal England |
| Birth date | 1955 |
| Place of birth | Porto (Portugal) |
| Affiliation | Universidade Eduardo Mondlane. Departamento de História University of Bradford Francisco Manyanga Secondary School (Mozambique) |
| Profession or occupation | Novelists Historians Periodical editors High school teachers |
| Found in | His O inicio da luta armada em Tete, 1968-1969, 1989: title page (João Paulo Borges Coelho) Indicos indícios II, 2010: title page (João Paulo Borges Coelho) back cover flap (Mozambican historian and author) Wikipedia, Apr. 4, 2014 (João Paulo Borges Coelho; b. Porto, Portugal, 1955; studied history in Maputo; PhD in economic and social history, University of Bradford; prof. of contemporary history, Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo; editor of Arquivo, the journal of the Mozambican National Archive in Maputo) Dictionary of African Biography, accessed May 12, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Coelho, João Paulo Borges; educator, fiction writer; born 1955 in Portugal; at the beginning of 1973 his father, trying to keep him out of trouble, sent him to Portugal to study psychology, sociology, and history; bachelor's degree in history at the Eduardo Mondlane University (1978); earned a PhD in economic and social history (1993) from the University of Bradford; after the independence (1975) he returned to Mozambique, where he began to teach history in the night school program of the Francisco Manyanga Secondary School; teaches contemporary Mozambican history and Southern African history; published As visitas do Dr. Valdez (The Visits of Dr. Valdez), a novel that established him as a new voice in Mozambican literature; with the novel O Olho de Hertzog (The Eye of Hertzog) (2010) his career became international and he became one of the most notable contemporary authors writing in Portuguese; won the Prémio Leya award) |
| Associated language | por |
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