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António Emílio Leite Couto , better known as Mia Couto, is a Mozambican writer and the winner of the 2014 Neustadt International Prize for Literature.

✵ 5. July 1955  •  Other names Μία Κόουτου
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Famous Mia Couto Quotes

“Every morning the gazelle wakes up knowing she must run faster than the lion or will be dead. Every morning the lion wakes up knowing he must run faster than the gazelle or he'll starve. It doesn't matter if you are a lion or a gazelle: when the sun rises you better start to run.”

Mia Couto

Confession of the Lioness: A Novel

“There is only a way of escape from a place: is leaving ourselves. There is only a way of leaving ourselves: is loving someone.”

Mia Couto

Confession of the Lioness: A Novel

“In war, the poor are killed. In peace, the poor dies.”

Mia Couto

Confession of the Lioness: A Novel

“There is only a way of escape from a place: is leaving ourselves. There is only a way of leaving ourselves: is loving someone. Só há um modo de escapar de um lugar: é sairmos de nós. Só há um modo de sairmos de nós: é amarmos alguém.”

Mia Couto

Confession of the Lioness: A Novel

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