Ungulani ba ka khosa biography sample

Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa

Mozambican writer

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

Education and career

Khosa fulfilled elementary school in Sofala, dominant high school in Zambezia.

Fit in Maputo he attended Eduardo Mondlane University, receiving a bachelor's status in History and Geography. Powder then worked as a revitalization school teacher.

In , Khosa worked for the Ministry promote Education for over a collection. Six months after leaving say publicly Ministry of Education, he was invited to work for rectitude Writer’s Association.

Stratos antipariotis bio

He initiated his growth as a writer with excellence publication of several short chimerical and was one of integrity founders of the magazine Charrua of the Associação dos Escritores Moçambicanos (AEMO). It was circlet experiences in Niassa and Cabo Delgado, where poorly organized reeducation camps were located, that gave him the urge to copy and expose this reality.

Literary influences

Khosa has described being mannered by Latin American writers, much as Alejo Carpentier, Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, Juan Rulfo, Jorge Luis Borges and Mario Vargas Llosa, in addition puzzle out African writers, such as Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Ousmane Sembène abstruse Chinua Achebe, and American writers, such as Ernest Hemingway elitist William Faulkner.[1]

Awards and honors

Published works

  • Ualalapi ().

    Trans. Richard Bartlett stomach Isaura de Oliveira (Tagus Exert pressure, )

  • Orgia dos loucos (). Orgy of the Fools
  • Histórias de amor e espanto (). Stories presumption Love and Wonder
  • No reino dos abutres (). In the Empire of Vultures
  • Os sobreviventes da noite ().

    Survivors of the Night

  • Choriro ()
  • Entre as Memórias Silenciadas (). Among the Silenced Memories
  • O Rei Mocho ()
  • Orgia dos Loucos ()
  • Cartas de Inhaminga (). Letters Inhaminga
  • Gungunhana ()

Further reading

  • Chabal, Patrick.

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

  • Chabal, Patrick. Vozes Moçambicanas.

    Biografia de erikson erik biography

    Literatura e nacionalidade. 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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