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Angolan writer wins UK foreign fiction prize

Jose Eduardo Agualusa has won the Independent's Foreign Fiction Prize for his novel 'The Book of Chameleons'.

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LONDON: Angolan author Jose Eduardo Agualusa has won the Independent's Foreign Fiction Prize for his novel The Book of Chameleons, the British newspaper said on Wednesday.   

 

The 10,000 pound ($20,000) prize is shared equally between the author and his translator from the Portuguese version, Daniel Hahn.   

 

The novel explores the recent history of former Portuguese colony Angola, whose independence in 1975 was followed by a lengthy civil war. The shortlist for the prize also included Dag Solstad's novel Shyness and Dignity (Norway), Eva Menasse's Vienna (Austria), Javier Marias's Your Face Tomorrow: Dance and Dream (Spain), Vangelis Hatziyannidis's Four Walls (Greece) and Per Olov Enquist's The Story of Blanche and Marie (Sweden).   

 

Agualusa was born in Huambo in 1960, and now divides his time between Lisbon and the Angolan capital, Luanda.

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