Angolan Writers

Background:

Angola
Formal Name: Republic of Angola Local Name: Angola Local Formal Name: República de Angola United Nations: African Union Status: UN Country Capital City: Luanda Main Cities: Huambo Population: 10,674,000 Area: 1,246,700 km2 Currency: 1 new kwanza 100 lwei Languages: Portuguese, Bantu Religions: Roman Catholic, Animist

• José Eduardo Agualusa (1960– ), journalist and writer.^[Gikandi]
• Mário Pinto de Andrade (1928–1990), poet and politician
• Arlindo Barbeitos (1940– ), poet
• Mendes de Carvalho, writing as Uanhenga Xitu, politician and Africanist writer in Portuguese and Kimbundu.^[Gikandi][1]
• Lopito Feijóo (1963– ), poet.^[2]
• António Jacinto (1924–1991), poet and political activist.^[Gikandi]
• Sousa Jamba (1966– ), Anglophone journalist and novelist.^[3]
• Luis Kandjimbo (1960– ), essayist and critic.^[4]
• Dia Kassembe (1946– ), Francophone writer and novelist.^[5]
• Alda Lara (1930–1962), poet.
• Reis Luís, or "Mbwanga" (1968– ), Portuguese-language novelist.^[6]
• João Maimona (1955– ), poet and essayist.^[7]
• Manuel Rui Monteiro (1941– ), poet.^[Gikandi][8]
• Agostinho Neto (1922–1979), poet.^{[Gikandi] [Killam & Rowe]}
• Ondjaki (1977– ), poet, novelist and dramatist.
• Pepetela, pen-name of Artur Carlos Maurício Pestana dos Santos (1941–), writer of fiction.^[Gikandi]
• Oscar Ribas (1909–2004), novelist
• Paula Tavares (1952– ), poet.
• José Luandino Vieira (1935– ), short-story writer and novelist.^[Gikandi]