João Paulo Borges Coelho

João Paulo Constantino Borges Coelho , for short mostly João Paulo Borges Coelho (* 1955 in Porto , Portugal ) is a Mozambican writer and historian .

Life

João Coelho was born in 1955 to a father from Trás-os-Montes and a mother from Ibo in the Portuguese port city of Porto. The family moved to the northern Mozambican city of Moatize shortly after he was born , where his father worked in the coal mining industry. In the meantime, the family also lived on Ibo, where Coelho's mother came from before moving to Beira . There he attended the Liceu Pêro de Anaia in Beira.

Coelho began studying at the University of Maputo during the War of Independence in Mozambique. However, his father sent him to Lisbon for fear of political unrest. He didn't feel particularly comfortable there and couldn't adapt - then Coelho experienced the Carnation Revolution and with it the end of the dictatorship in Portugal. He then decided to travel back to Mozambique, whose independence he swiftly expected. While giving evening classes at the Escola Secundária Francisco Manyanga , he studied history at the now renamed Eduardo Mondlane University . He completed his bachelor's degree in 1978 and the licenciatura in 1986. Immediately afterwards he received his doctorate in economics and social history at the University of Bradford until 1993 .

After completing his doctorate, Coelho returned to Maputo, where he still lectures on the latest history of Mozambique and southern Africa. He lectured regularly as a visiting professor at the University of Lisbon . Coelho has long been part of Eduardo Mondlane University and has been active in a wide variety of committees there. Since 1987 he has been the editor of Arquivo , the journal of the Mozambican National Archives in Maputo. In 2012 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Aveiro .

Coelho has mainly published on the history of Mozambique in the 20th century, with a special focus on the liberation struggle. In addition to his scientific publications, he published his first fiction novel in 2003 entitled As Duas Sombras do Rio , based on his research trips to Zumbo, the westernmost town in Mozambique at the confluence of the Zambezi and Luangwa rivers . For his novel As Visitas do Dr. Valdez , which describes the collapse of the Portuguese colonial empire and the founding of Mozambique, he received the Mozambican literary prize Prémio José Craveirinha in 2006 . In 2009 Coelho received the Prémio LeYa for his novel O Olho de Hertzog.

Published works of fiction

• As Duas Sombras do Rio , Editorial Caminho, 2003, ISBN 972-21-1552-9 .
• As Visitas do Dr. Valdez , Editorial Caminho, 2004, ISBN 972-21-1641-X .
• Índicos Indícios I. Setentrião , Editorial Caminho, 2005.
• Índicos Indícios II. Meridião , Editorial Caminho, 2005.
• Crónica da Rua 513.2 , Editorial Caminho, 2006, ISBN 972-21-1781-5
• Campo de Trânsito , Editorial Caminho, 2007.
• Hinyambaan , Editorial Caminho, 2008, ISBN 972-21-1972-9 .
• O Olho de Hertzog , LeYa, 2010, ISBN 978-989-660-039-6 .
• Cidade dos Espelhos , Editorial Caminho, 2011, ISBN 978-972-212-398-3 .
• Rainhas da Noite , Editorial Caminho, 2013, ISBN 978-972-212-652-6 .
• Água - Uma novela rural , Editorial Caminho, 2016, ISBN 978-972-212-809-4 .
• Ponta Gea , Editorial Caminho, 2017, ISBN 978-972-212-866-7 .

Web links

• Carmen Lucia Tindó Secco: Interview with Borges on buala.org, September 17, 2010 (in Portuguese)
• Doris Wieser: A língua é a própria carne do pensamento ”, interview with Borges in: Cadernos de Estudos Africanos 32/2016 (in Portuguese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Luís Gonçalves: Coelho, João Paulo Borges . In: Emmanuel K. Akyeampong and Henry Louis Gates, Jr (Eds.): Dictionary of African Biography . tape 2 . Oxford Press, Oxford 2012, ISBN 978-0-19-538207-5 , pp. 109 f .
2. ↑ ^{a b} CV: João Paulo Constantino Borges Coelho. Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, accessed December 22, 2018 . 
3. ^ Universidade de Aveiro ›Honoris Causa» João Paulo Borges Coelho. Retrieved December 22, 2018 .