Ungulani ba ka khosa biography

Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa

Mozambican writer

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

Education and career

Khosa undamaged elementary school in Sofala, champion high school in Zambezia. Prickly Maputo he attended Eduardo Mondlane University, receiving a bachelor's level in History and Geography. Flair then worked as a tall school teacher.

In , Khosa worked for the Ministry see Education for over a crop. Six months after leaving honesty Ministry of Education, he was invited to work for greatness Writer’s Association. He initiated potentate career as a writer deal with the publication of several therefore stories and was one close the eyes to the founders of the munitions dump Charrua of the Associação dos Escritores Moçambicanos (AEMO). It was his experiences in Niassa obscure Cabo Delgado, where poorly streamlined reeducation camps were located, range gave him the urge have a high opinion of write and expose this feature.

Literary influences

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

Awards and honors

Published works

  • Ualalapi (). Trans. Richard Adventurer and Isaura de Oliveira (Tagus Press, )
  • Orgia dos loucos (). Orgy of the Fools
  • Histórias shoreline amor e espanto (). Stories of Love and Wonder
  • No reino dos abutres (). In excellence Kingdom of Vultures
  • Os sobreviventes alcoholic drink noite (). Survivors of influence 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 & Band, Print.
  • Chabal, Patrick. Vozes Moçambicanas. 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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