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Agualusa, José Eduardo, 1960-

LC control no.nr 90017027
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LC classificationPQ9929.A39
Personal name headingAgualusa, José Eduardo, 1960-
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Variant(s)Agualusa, Eduardo, 1960-
Birth date1960-12-13
Place of birthHuambo (Huambo, Angola)
Profession or occupationAuthors
Found inHis A conjura, 1989: title page (José Eduardo Agualusa; recipient of Prémio Revelação Sonangol, 1989) page 7 (Eduardo Agualusa; Angolan writer)
A conjura, c1989: title page (José Eduardo Agualusa) page 4 of cover (born in Huambo on 12-13-60)
A general theory of oblivion, 2015: ECIP t.p. (José Eduardo Agualusa) data view (writer, playwright, and journalist, is one of the leading literary voices in Angola and the Portuguese language; his books have been translated into 25 languages. Four of his books have been translated into English: Creole (2002), winner of the Portuguese Grand Prize for Literature; The Book of Chameleons (2006), which won the Independent Foreign Ficture Prize; My father's wives (2008), and Rainy Season (2009); has received literary grants from the Centro Nacional da Cultura, the Fundação do Oriente, and the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst; In 2009, he completed his novel, Barroco tropical in Amsterdam while living in the Writers Residency, a joint initiative by the Dutch Foundation for Litterature and the Foundation for the Production and Translation of Dutch Literature; has also written four plays: W generation, O monólogo, Chovem amores na Rua do Matador and A Caixa Preta, the last two written with Mia Couto)
Associated languagepor
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