Paulina Chiziane

Paulina Chiziane was born on 4 June 1955 in Manjacaze, in Gaza province, into a Protestant family in which Chope and Ronga were spoken; she learned Portuguese at a Catholic mission school and grew up in the suburbs of Lourenço Marques. A Frelimo activist in her youth, she broke with the party and devoted herself to writing, at first in the press, from 1984. She calls herself a storyteller rather than a novelist. The Camões Prize was awarded to her in 2021, the first time it went to an African woman.

In the catalogue 1

• NovelBalada de amor ao ventoPaulina Chiziane · 1990not translated into EnglishLiterature