Ondjaki

Ondjaki was born in Angola in 1977. As a writer of both prose and poetry, he writes for film and theater as well. He is a member of the Union of Angolan Writers and an honorary member of the Association of Hungarian Poets. In Brazil, Ondjaki received the National Child and Youth Book Foundation Award (FNLIJ; 2010, 2013, 2014) and Jabuti Award (2010, young adult category). In Portugal, he received the José Saramago Prize in 2013, andi in France, the Litterature-Monde award for his story “Os transparentes” (France 2016). His work has been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, German, English, Serbian, Kiswahili, Chinese, and Swiss. He writes stories for newspapers and occasionally works as a professor of creative writing or as ghostwriter [www.kazukuta.com/ondjaki]. Ondjaki grew up in Luanda, Angola, moved to Lisbon, almost lived in New York and Beijing, lived through the rains of Santiago de Compostela, lived in Laranjeiras, Rio de Janeiro, has never been to Uruguay, and now lived in Luanda.