Mia Couto

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Mia Couto
Mia Couto at Fronteiras do Pensamento (2014)
Born	António Emílio Leite Couto 5 July 1955 Beira, Mozambique
Occupation	Biologist and writer
Nationality	Mozambican
Period	Post-colonial Africa
Genre	Animist realism, historical fiction

António Emílio Leite Couto, better known as Mia Couto (born 5 July 1955),^[1] is a Mozambican writer. He won the Camões Prize in 2013, the most important literary award in the Portuguese language, and the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2014.