Confession of the Lioness (22 page)
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Authors: Mia Couto
Mia Couto
, born in Beira, Mozambique, in 1955, is one of the most prominent writers in Portuguese-speaking Africa. After studying medicine and biology in Maputo, he worked as a journalist and headed the AIM news agency. Couto has been awarded several important literary prizes, including the Verg
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lio Ferreira Prize and the Latin Union Award for Romance Literatures, among others, and he is a finalist for the 2015 Man Booker International Prize. He lives in Maputo, where he works as a biologist. You can sign up for email updates
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Copyright © 2012 by Editorial Caminho
Translation copyright © 2015 by David Brookshaw
All rights reserved
Originally published in 2012 by Editorial Caminho, Portugal, as
A Confiss
ã
o da Leoa
English translation published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
First American edition, 2015
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Couto, Mia, 1955â
   [Confiss
ã
o da leoa. English]
   Confession of the lioness / Mia Couto; translated from the Portuguese / by David Brookshaw. â First American edition.
      pages  cm
   ISBN 978-0-374-12923-1 (hardcover) â ISBN 978-0-374-71095-8 (e-book)
    I.  Brookshaw, David, translator.  II.  Title.
PQ9939.C68 C6613 2015
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