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Jose Eduardo Agualusa

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José Eduardo Agualusa (born 1960) is an Angolan writer. He studied agronomy and forestry in Lisbon before starting his writing career as a poet. His novel Creole was awarded the Portuguese Grand Prize for Literature, and he received the U.K.'s Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for The Book of Chameleons. In 2017 he and his translator, Daniel Hahn, won the Dublin Literary Award for A General Theory of Oblivion.

Daniel Hahn is the author of several works of non-fiction, including the history book The Tower Menagerie. He is the editor of The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature and one of the editors of The Ultimate Book Guide, a series of reading guides for children and teenagers - the first volume of which won the Blue Peter Book Award. His translation of The Book of Chameleons by José Eduardo Agualusa won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2007. He has also translated the work of José Luís Peixoto, Philippe Claudel, María Dueñas, José Saramago, Eduardo Halfon, Gonçalo M. Tavares, and others.

Jose Eduardo Agualusa Books

A Practical Guide to Levitation book cover

A Practical Guide to Levitation

Jose Eduardo Agualusa
The Society of Reluctant Dreamers book cover

The Society of Reluctant Dreamers

Jose Eduardo Agualusa
A General Theory of Oblivion book cover

A General Theory of Oblivion

Jose Eduardo Agualusa
The Book of Chameleons book cover

The Book of Chameleons

José Eduardo Agualusa
The Book of Chameleons book cover

The Book of Chameleons

Jose Eduardo Agualusa
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