José Eduardo Agualusa

Ana Margarida Fonseca (Instituto Politenico da Guarda)

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 1960

Places

Born in Angola
Active in Angola

Activities

Primary

Prose writer

Resources

Agualusa's Works

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José Eduardo Agualusa (Alves da Cunha) (1960-) is an Angolan journalist and writer, born in Huambo. Author of a vast body of literature, his works include novels, short stories, dramatic texts, children's literature and poetry translated into more than thirty languages. Among his many awards are the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for his 2007 novel

O Vendedor de Passados

(published in

English as

The Book of Chameleons

), a 2016 finalist for the Man Booker International Prize for

Teoria Geral do Esquecimento

(published in English as

General Theory of Oblivion

) and winner of the 2017 International Dublin Literary Award. Agualusa also stands out for his defense of human rights and democracy in Angola.

The son of a railway worker and a Portuguese teacher, Agualusa had a happy childhood in

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Citation: Fonseca, Ana Margarida. "José Eduardo Agualusa". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 06 February 2020 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=14240, accessed 23 November 2024.]