João Paulo Borges Coelho

Elena Brugioni (UNICAMP Universidade Estadual de Campinas); Fernanda Gallo (UNICAMP Universidade Estadual de Campinas)

Ed. by Denise Saive, Independent Scholar - Europe
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 8.2.2: Lusophone (Portuguese) and Spanish African Writing and Culture.
Vol. editors: Helen Rachel Cousins (Birmingham Newman University), Denise Saive (Independent Scholar - Europe), Maria Tavares (Queen's University Belfast)

Dates

Born 1955

Places

Born in Portugal
Active in Mozambique

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Historian / Chronicler
Prose writer
Teacher/ Professor

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Born in 1955, in the city of Porto, while the family was traveling in Portugal, João Paulo Borges Coelho spent his childhood between Ibo Island, in the north of Mozambique, and the small mining village of Moatize. Later, he moved with his family to the city of Beira, in the central region of the country, where he lived until the beginning of the War of Independence. With the start of political turmoil, his family sent him to Portugal to study at the University of Lisbon and to keep him away from the ‘political troubles’ that would eventually lead to Mozambique’s independence. He did not conclude his studies in Portugal, and he “never really felt at home” in Lisbon (Borges Coelho, 2009). In 1974, after the Carnation Revolution when most of the Portuguese settlers in the colonies…

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Citation: Brugioni, Elena, Fernanda Gallo. "João Paulo Borges Coelho". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 28 May 2019 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=14252, accessed 23 November 2024.]