On September 27th, the Mozambican writer Mia Couto received the title of Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Brasilia, in the Brazilian capital. Before the ceremony, the writer gave a lecture to the students of that university, in the closure of the university week, whose theme was Encontros que transformam (encounters that transform). José Manuel Durão Barroso, in 2014, and José Saramago, in 1997 are two of the 56 personalities who have received the same award from the same institution.
Author of more than 30 books (poetry, tale, chronicle and romance), Mia Couto will publish a new book entitled O Universo num Grão de Areia (the universe in a grain of sand). This is a collection of «texts on civic intervention», which collects texts published in various media and written for different audiences and situations», of «topics ranging from politics to literature and culture to anthropology and biology, announced Caminho editors, from Leya Group. This launch takes place about a month after O Terrorista Elegante (the Elegant Terrorist), from Quetzal editors, which gathers the Mozambican writer to the Angolan José Eduardo Agualusa, in three short novels. The mozambican writer, born in 1955, has been awarded Prémio Camões, in 2013, Prémio Eduardo Lourenço, in 2011, Prémio União Latina de Literaturas Românicas, in 2007, and Prémio Vergílio Ferreira, in 1999. Furthermore, his debut novel, Terra Sonâmbula, published in 1992, was elected as «one of the 12’s best African books of the 20th century».
