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Mia Couto is one of Mozambique's most noted authors and winner of literary prizes - an international jury at the Zimbabwe International Book Fair named his first novel one of the best African books of the 20th century.

Couto grew up in the coastal city of Beira, which he describes as being a special place because Africans had not been pushed out of the city as they had in other colonial towns.

Mia Couto's book 'Mulheres de Cinzas' has recently been published in English translation. He spoke to Newsday's Shaimaa Khalil.

(Photo: Mia Couto in 2015. Credit: Getty Images)