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Mia Couto. File photo: Lusa
Mozambican writer Mia Couto on Tuesday releases ‘A Água e a Águia’ [‘The Water and the Eagle’] in Maputo, a story for children illustrated by Canadian artist Danuta Wojciechowska.
‘The Water and the Eagle’ is a story for children about the great eagles that fly over the Earth. The text projects the metaphor of the construction of the river by the eagle,” Mia Couto said.
The work is to be launched in the cultural centre of the Leite Couto Foundation, created in memory of Mia Couto’s father, today at 6 p.m..
“The text of Mia Couto, in complicity with the illustrations by Danuta Wojciechowska, makes his work a singular space to poetically reflect on the water, a theme that has been recurrent in his work,” it added.
António Emílio Leite Couto, better known as Mia Couto, was born in Mozambique in 1955 and has published poetry, tales, chronicles and novels.
Mia Couto received the Camões Prize in 2013 and wrote, among others, ‘Jesusalém’, “Last Flight of the Flamingo”, “Voices Made Night”, ‘Estórias abensonhadas'[Dream-blessed Stories], ‘Sleepwalking Land’, ‘Under the Frangipani’ and ‘Confession of the Lioness’.
Danuta Wojciechowska, a Canadian woman who long-lived in Portugal, is an author and illustrator of books for children, almost all with a theme strongly linked to nature, but the visual work extends also to graphic design.
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