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PepetelaArtur Carlos Maurcio Pestana dos Santos (born in Benguela, Angola, in 1941) is a major Angolan writer of fiction. He writes under the name Pepetela. A white Angolan, Pepetela fought as a member of the MPLA in the long guerrilla war for Angola's independence. Much of his writing deals with Angola's political history in the twentieth century. After the country's liberation from Portugal, he assumed the post of Minister of Education and later became a professor of sociology at the University of Angola. Pepetela won the Cames Prize, the world's highest honour for lusophone literature, in 1997. Novels - Parbola do Cgado Velho
- Ngunga's Adventures: A story of Angola (in Portuguese, As Aventuras de Ngunga), 1972
- Muana Pu, 1978
- Mayombe, 1980
- Yaka, 1984
- O Co e os Caluandas, 1985
- Luandando, 1990
- Lueji, o Nascimento de um Imprio, 1990
- A Gerao da Utopia, 1992
- The Return of the Water Spirit (in Portuguese, O Desejo de Kianda), 1995
Plays - A Corda, 1978
- A Revolta da Casa dos dolos, 1980
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