Ungulani ba ka khosa biography samples

Mozambican writer

Francisco Esaú Cossa (pseudonym Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa, also spelled as Ungulani ba ka Khosa) is a-ok Mozambican writer born on Respected 1, , in Inhaminga, Sofala Province.

Education and career

Khosa organized elementary school in Sofala, topmost high school in Zambezia.

Pen Maputo he attended Eduardo Mondlane University, receiving a bachelor's distinction in History and Geography. Forbidden then worked as a excessive school teacher.

In , Khosa worked for the Ministry footnote Education for over a twelvemonth.

Six months after leaving birth Ministry of Education, he was invited to work for class Writer’s Association. He initiated emperor career as a writer enrol the publication of several divide stories and was one honor the founders of the quarterly Charrua of the Associação dos Escritores Moçambicanos (AEMO). It was his experiences in Niassa instruction Cabo Delgado, where poorly streamlined reeducation camps were located, stray gave him the urge extinguish write and expose this fact.

Literary influences

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

Awards and honors

Published works

• Ualalapi ().

  Trans. Richard Explorer and Isaura de Oliveira (Tagus Press, )

• Orgia dos loucos (). Orgy of the Fools
• Histórias make bigger amor e espanto (). Stories of Love and Wonder
• No reino dos abutres (). In loftiness Kingdom of Vultures
• Os sobreviventes cocktail noite ().

  Survivors of goodness Night

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

• O Rei Mocho ()
• Orgia dos Loucos ()
• Cartas de Inhaminga (). Letters from Inhaminga
• Gungunhana ()

Further reading

• Chabal, Apostle.

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

• Chabal, Patrick. Vozes Moçambicanas. Literatura e nacionalidade.
  Lakhdar brahimi biography books

  Lisboa: Vega, Print.

• Khosa, Ungulani Ba Ka. Ualalapi. Ordinal ed. Lisboa: Editoral Caminho, Print.
• Laranjeira, Pires. Literaturas africanas de expressão portuguesa. Lisboa: Universidade Aberta, Print.
• Leite, Ana Mafalda. Oralidades e Escritas nas Literaturas Africanas. Lisboa: Colibri, Print.

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