{"id":21697,"date":"2025-01-24T11:20:21","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T11:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acad-ciencias.pt\/?post_type=ac_scholars&#038;p=21697"},"modified":"2025-09-11T12:11:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T11:11:37","slug":"mia-couto-antonio-emilio-leite-couto","status":"publish","type":"ac_scholars","link":"https:\/\/www.acad-ciencias.pt\/eng\/scholars\/mia-couto-antonio-emilio-leite-couto\/","title":{"rendered":"Mia Couto [Ant\u00f3nio Em\u00edlio Leite Couto]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Writer, biologist, and professor of Ecology at Eduardo Mondlane University (Maputo). His literary work, which spans novels, short stories, poetry, and chronicles, includes dozens of titles, among which stand out: <em>Vozes Anoitecidas<\/em> (1986), <em>Cada Homem \u00e9 uma Ra\u00e7a<\/em> (1990), <em>Terra Son\u00e2mbula<\/em> (1992), <em>Contos do Nascer da Terra<\/em> (1997), <em>Raiz de Orvalho e outros poemas<\/em> (1999), <em>O \u00daltimo Voo do Flamingo<\/em> (2000), <em>Venenos de Deus, Rem\u00e9dios do Diabo<\/em> (2008), <em>A Confiss\u00e3o da Leoa<\/em> (2012), <em>As Areias do Imperador<\/em> (2015\u20132017), and <em>O Mapeador de Aus\u00eancias<\/em> (2020).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He has been awarded numerous literary prizes: Grande Pr\u00e9mio da Fic\u00e7\u00e3o Narrativa (1990), National Fiction Prize of the Mozambican Writers\u2019 Association (1995), Verg\u00edlio Ferreira Prize (1999), Latin Union Prize for Romance Literatures (2007), Eduardo Louren\u00e7o Prize (2012), Neustadt International Prize (2014), and the Guadalajara International Book Fair Prize, Mexico (2024).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters (since 1998) and holds an Honorary Doctorate from S\u00e3o Paulo State University (2022). He received the Cam\u00f5es Prize (2013) and was decorated as <em>Comendador da Ordem Militar de Sant\u2019Iago da Espada<\/em> (1998).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writer, biologist, and professor of Ecology at Eduardo Mondlane University (Maputo). His literary work, which spans novels, short stories, poetry, and chronicles, includes dozens of titles, among which stand out: Vozes Anoitecidas (1986), Cada Homem \u00e9 uma Ra\u00e7a (1990), Terra Son\u00e2mbula (1992), Contos do Nascer da Terra (1997), Raiz de Orvalho e outros poemas (1999), [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":23700,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"date":["2010-12-09"],"email":"","show_email":false,"interest":"","interest_en":"","hyperlink":"","footnotes":""},"ac_class":[118],"ac_bond":[122],"ac_section":[],"class_list":["post-21697","ac_scholars","type-ac_scholars","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ac_class-classe-de-letras","ac_bond-correspondentes-estrangeiros"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acad-ciencias.pt\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ac_scholars\/21697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acad-ciencias.pt\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ac_scholars"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acad-ciencias.pt\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ac_scholars"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acad-ciencias.pt\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.acad-ciencias.pt\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ac_scholars\/21697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25334,"href":"https:\/\/www.acad-ciencias.pt\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ac_scholars\/21697\/revisions\/25334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acad-ciencias.pt\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acad-ciencias.pt\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ac_class","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acad-ciencias.pt\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ac_class?post=21697"},{"taxonomy":"ac_bond","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acad-ciencias.pt\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ac_bond?post=21697"},{"taxonomy":"ac_section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acad-ciencias.pt\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ac_section?post=21697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}