Mia Couto

Quick Facts

Full Name	Mia Couto
Occupation	Writer
Date Of Birth	Jul 5, 1955(1955-07-05)
Age	69
Birthplace	Beira
Country	Mozambique
Birth City	Sofala
Horoscope	Cancer

Mia Couto Biography

Mia Couto is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on July 5, 1955 in Beira, Sofala, Mozambique.

António Emílio Leite Couto, better known as Mia Couto (born 5 July 1955), 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.

In April 1974, after the Carnation Revolution in Lisbon and the overthrow of the Estado Novo regime, Mozambique was about to become an independent republic. In 1974, FRELIMO asked Couto to suspend his studies for a year to work as a journalist for Tribuna until September 1975 and then as the director of the newly created Mozambique Information Agency (AIM). Later, he ran Tempo magazine until 1981. His first book of poems, Raiz de Orvalho, was published in 1983; it included texts aimed against the dominance of Marxist militant propaganda. Couto continued working for the newspaper Notícias until 1985 when he resigned to finish his course of study in biology.

Mia Couto Net Worth

Mia Couto is one of the richest Writer from Mozambique. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Mia Couto 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Couto was born in the city of Beira, Mozambique’s third largest city, where he was also raised and schooled. He is the son of Portuguese emigrants who moved to the Portuguese colony in the 1950s. When he was 14, some of his poetry was published in a local newspaper, Notícias da Beira. Three years later, in 1971, he moved to the capital Lourenço Marques (now Maputo) and began to study medicine at the University of Lourenço Marques. During this time, the anti- colonial guerrilla and political movement FRELIMO was struggling to overthrow the Portuguese colonial rule in Mozambique.

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According to our records, Mia Couto married to Patrícia Couto. As of December 1, 2023, Mia Couto’s is not dating anyone.

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Facts & Trivia

Michaela Ranked on the list of most popular Writer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Mozambique. Mia Couto celebrates birthday on July 5 of every year.