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Artur Carlos Maurício Pestana dos Santos
[Pepetela] , b. 1941
Artur Carlos was born in Benguela, Portuguese Angola in 1941 (October 29) and writes under the pen name Pepetela. Pepetela later went to Paris and in 1963, he earned a scholarship to study Sociology in Algiers, where he was approached by Henrique Abranches from the MPLA. Pepetela served as vice minister in charge of education in 1975, under the presidency of Agostinho Neto. He has written plays among others like A Corda and A Revolta da Casa dos Ídolos, and has published several novels. Among them are Lueji, The Return of the Water Spirit and Yaka which won him the 1986 Angolan National Prize for Literature. In 1997, he was awarded the Camões Prize, the world's highest honour for Lusophone Literature. Since the 1980s, he has been a professor of sociology in the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Angola, now known as the University of Agostinho Neto.
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Bio prepared by Divine Che Neba, University of Yaoundé 1, nebankiwang@yahoo.com and Chester Mbangchia, University of Yaoundé 1, mabangchia25@gmail.com
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