Ana Mafalda Leite

Biography

Ana Mafalda Leite was born 1956 in Aveiro, Portugal. She is the author of several poetry collections including Window to the Indian Ocean (2020), Love this form of ignorance (2010) and Roses of China (1999). She went to the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon for her undergraduate studies in Romance Philology. She also received her masters in Brazilian and African Literatures of Portuguese Language and Ph.D. in African Literatures from the same university. Scholar and editor, her areas of research include Mozambican literature, African cultures and literatures in the Portuguese language, oral literature and postcolonial studies. Leite is an Associate Professor of African Literatures at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon.

Birth Date

1956-01-01

Place of Birth

Portuguese, Mozambican

Country of Nationality

Mozambique

Languages Spoken

French, English, Spanish, Italian

University of Lisbon, University of Lisbon, University of Lisbon

Poetry Collections

2021 - The Strangeness Off the Page, Co-authored with Hirondina Joshua . Humus Editions. Collection 12Fourteen (Poetry).
2020 - Window to the Indian Ocean , Incomplete Poetry (1984-2019), Lisbon: Rosa de Porcelana.
2019 - Other Borders, Maputo: Cavalo do Mar. 2
017 - Other Borders : Fragments of Narratives, São Paulo: Kapulana. 2010 - Love this way of ignorance , Maputo: Alcance Editores.
2010 - Anthology Book of Incantations and Other Poems (1984-2010), Maputo: Alcance Editores.
2005 - Book of Enchantments (Heart Passport), Lisbon: Path.
2002 - Passaporte do Coração , Lisbon: Quetzal.
1999 - Roses of China , Lisbon: Quetzal.
1992 - Mariscando Luas , Lisbon: Vega. (In collaboration with Roberto Chichorro and Luís Carlos Patraquim ).
1989 - Songs from Alba , Lisbon: Vega. 1984 - In Sombra Acesa, Lisbon: Vega.

Sources

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