Born in Inhambane, Mozambique, Francisco Pedro dos Santos Noa has a doctorate in African Literature in Portuguese (2001), from Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He is an essayist, literary critic, visiting professor and researcher at universities in Mozambique and abroad, such as Universidade Santiago de Compostela, Universit\u00e9 de Abidjan, Universidade Montes Claros, Sorbonne Nouvelle, Universidade Agostinho Neto, Universidade de Coimbra, Universit\u00e9 de G\u00e8neve, PUC Rio Grande do Sul. Master’s and doctoral theses supervisor and examiner in Mozambique and abroad, he coordinates and participates in scientific research projects, focusing on subjects such as cultural identities, memory, Mozambican literature, the Indian Ocean, coloniality, nationality, transnationality and literary transcoloniality, and themes related to higher education as well. Regular participation in conferences, seminars and scientific congresses. Solid management experience in higher education institutions in Mozambique (ISCTEM deputy vice-chancellor, 2007-2009), (Universidade L\u00fario vice-chancellor, 2015-2020). He has been teaching for over 40 years, 25 at Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, and was also Director of Aquino de Bragan\u00e7a Center for Social Studies (2012-2014).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Creation of community libraries in Sofala and Manica (2007-2008). He was also founder and director of scientific (Humanitas<\/em>) and literary (Proler<\/em>) publications. Member of international scientific institutions and associations in France, United States, Portugal and Brazil. Member of the juries, among others, of Cam\u00f5es Prize (2006, 2007, 2024, 2025) and Oceanos Prize (2018, 2019, 2021, 2023). Since March 2023 he has been a Foreign Correspondent Member of Academia de Ci\u00eancias de Lisboa. Author of hundreds of articles and eight books published in Mozambique, Brazil and Portugal, combining essays and literary criticism, chronicles, as well as topics on education, society and citizenship. His reference work is Imp\u00e9rio, Mito e Myopia. Mo\u00e7ambique como Inven\u00e7\u00e3o Liter\u00e1ria<\/em> (Caminho, 2002). He is BCI Literature Prize, 2014.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Born in Inhambane, Mozambique, Francisco Pedro dos Santos Noa has a doctorate in African Literature in Portuguese (2001), from Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He is an essayist, literary critic, visiting professor and researcher at universities in Mozambique and abroad, such as Universidade Santiago de Compostela, Universit\u00e9 de Abidjan, Universidade Montes Claros, Sorbonne Nouvelle, Universidade Agostinho […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":23009,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"date":["2023-03-07"],"email":"","show_email":false,"interest":"","interest_en":"","hyperlink":"","footnotes":""},"ac_class":[118],"ac_bond":[122],"ac_section":[],"class_list":["post-22004","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\/22004","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":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.acad-ciencias.pt\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ac_scholars\/22004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23010,"href":"https:\/\/www.acad-ciencias.pt\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ac_scholars\/22004\/revisions\/23010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acad-ciencias.pt\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acad-ciencias.pt\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ac_class","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acad-ciencias.pt\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ac_class?post=22004"},{"taxonomy":"ac_bond","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acad-ciencias.pt\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ac_bond?post=22004"},{"taxonomy":"ac_section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acad-ciencias.pt\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ac_section?post=22004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}