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Mozambique Alive - About Mia Couto, Acclaimed Mozambican
Writer
 Mia
Couto, one of Mozambique's most prolific and best known authors, was born in
1955 in the Mozambican city of Beira. In the early 1970's he moved to Maputo
to begin medical studies but did not continue because of his involvement in
the independence struggle and the start of a career in journalism. He became
director of the Mozambique Information Agency (AIM), the magazine Tempo
and later the official daily newspaper Noticias.
Mia's poems have appeared in Mozambican magazines since he was 14, and his work has won him wide critical acclaim. His many distinctions include receiving an award in 1988 from the Organisation of Mozambican Journalists (ONJ) for his regular 'cronicando' columns in Noticias and winning the Mozambique National Prize for Literature in 1991. He is among the most widely read African authors writing in Portuguese. Mia now lives and works as a journalist in Maputo, where he has also taken up university studies once more.
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