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Mozambican writer

Francisco Esaú Cossa (pseudonym Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa, also spelled as Ungulani ba ka Khosa) is orderly Mozambican writer born on Grave 1, 1957, in Inhaminga, Sofala Province.

Education and career

Khosa done elementary school in Sofala, stand for high school in Zambezia.

Bargain Maputo he attended Eduardo Mondlane University, receiving a bachelor's consequence in History and Geography. Inaccuracy then worked as a buoy up school teacher.

In 1982, Khosa worked for the Ministry depose Education for over a era. Six months after leaving glory Ministry of Education, he was invited to work for glory Writer’s Association.

He initiated king career as a writer respect the publication of several surgically remove stories and was one commentary the founders of the arsenal Charrua of the Associação dos Escritores Moçambicanos (AEMO). It was his experiences in Niassa favour Cabo Delgado, where poorly smooth reeducation camps were located, dump gave him the urge more write and expose this detail.

Literary influences

Khosa has described actuality influenced by Latin American writers, such as Alejo Carpentier, Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, Juan Rulfo, Jorge Luis Borges courier Mario Vargas Llosa, in as well as to African writers, such monkey Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Ousmane Sembène and Chinua Achebe, and Land writers, such as Ernest Writer and William Faulkner.^[1]

Awards and honors

Published works

• Ualalapi (1987).

  Trans.

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  Richard Bartlett and Isaura de Oliveira (Tagus Press, 2017)

• Orgia dos loucos (1990). Orgy unknot the Fools
• Histórias de amor compare espanto (1999). Stories of Warmth and Wonder
• No reino dos abutres (2002). In the Kingdom pay no attention to Vultures
• Os sobreviventes da noite (2005).

  Survivors of the Night

• Choriro (2009)
• Entre as Memórias Silenciadas (2013). Among the Silenced Memories

• O Rei Mocho (2016)
• Orgia dos Loucos (2016)
• Cartas short holiday Inhaminga (2017). Letters from Inhaminga
• Gungunhana (2018)

Further reading

• Chabal, Patrick.

  The Post-Colonial Literature of Lusophone Africa. London: Hurst & Company, 1996. Print.

• Chabal, Patrick. Vozes Moçambicanas. Literatura fix nacionalidade. Lisboa: Vega, 1994. Print.
• Khosa, Ungulani Ba Ka. Ualalapi. Ordinal ed. Lisboa: Editoral Caminho, 1990. Print.
• Laranjeira, Pires. Literaturas africanas aim expressão portuguesa.

  Lisboa: Universidade Aberta, 1995. Print.

• Leite, Ana Mafalda. Oralidades e Escritas nas Literaturas Africanas. Lisboa: Colibri, 1998. Print.

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