若泽·爱德华多·阿古路沙

若泽·爱德华多·阿瓜卢萨（葡萄牙语：José Eduardo Agualusa Alves da Cunha，1960年12月13日—)，安哥拉记者、作家，拥有葡萄牙和巴西血统。早年在葡萄牙里斯本高等农学院学习农学和林业学。1998年，他移居巴西里约热内卢，2004 年起就居住在安哥拉首都罗安达。

阿瓜卢萨的作品体裁广泛，包括长篇小说、短篇小说、诗歌、戏剧和儿童文学等。近年来，阿瓜卢萨在国际文坛声名鹊起，成为当代安哥拉乃至整个葡语世界的代表作家。

主要作品

A Conjura (1989)

Estação das Chuvas (1996)

Nação Crioula (1997)

Um estranho em Goa ( 2000)

O Ano em que Zumbi Tomou o Rio (2003)

O Vendedor de Passados（2004)， 2007年获英国《独立报》外国小说奖，中译本：《贩卖过去的人》，朱豫歌译，上海人民出版社，2023年8月

As Mulheres de Meu Pai (2007)

Barroco tropical (2009)

Milagrário Pessoal (2010)

Teoria Geral do Esquecimento (2012)，2017年获国际IMPAC都柏林文学奖，中译本：《遗忘通论》，王渊译，上海人民出版社，2020年4月

A educação sentimental dos pássaros (2012)

A Vida no Céu (2013)

A Rainha Ginga (2014)

A sociedade dos sonhadores involuntários (2017)

Os Vivos e os Outros (2020)，中译本：《生者与余众》，王渊译，上海人民出版社，2022年3月

José Eduardo Agualusa Alves da Cunha (born December 13, 1960) is an Angolan writer and columnist of Portuguese and Brazilian descent. He studied agronomy and silviculture in Lisbon, Portugal. Currently he resides in the Island of Mozambique, working as a writer and journalist. He also has been working to establish a public library on the island.

Writing career

Agualusa writes predominantly in his native language, Portuguese. His books have been translated into twenty-five languages, most notably into English by translator Daniel Hahn, a frequent collaborator of his. Much of his writing focuses on the history of Angola.

Rainy Season (Estação das Chuvas, 1996) is a biographical novel about Lidia do Carmo Ferreira, the Angolan poet and historian who disappeared mysteriously in Luanda in 1992.

Creole (Nação Crioula, 1997) tells the story of a secret love between the fictional Portuguese adventurer Carlos Fradique Mendes (a creation of the 19th-century Portuguese novelist Eça de Queiroz) and Ana Olímpia de Caminha, a former slave who became one of the wealthiest persons in Angola.

The Book of Chameleons (O Vendedor de Passados, 2004) was excerpted in Gods and Soldiers: The Penguin Anthology of Contemporary African Writing in 2009. The original Portuguese title means "The Seller of Pasts" but Agualusa and Hahn mutually agreed to title it The Book of Chameleons in English—a title that Agualusa liked so much that he repurposed it, in Portuguese, for a subsequent collection of short stories that has not yet been translated: O Livro dos Camaleões.

A General Theory of Oblivion (Teoria Geral do Esquecimento, 2012) tells the history of Angola from the perspective of a woman named Ludo who barricades herself in her Luandan apartment for three decades—beginning the day before the country's independence.

He has seen some success in English-speaking literary circles, most notably for A General Theory of Oblivion. That novel, written in 2012 and translated in 2015, was shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker International Prize, and was the recipient of the 2017 International Dublin Literary Award.

Agualusa writes monthly for the Portuguese magazine LER and weekly for the Brazilian newspaper O Globo and the Angolan portal Rede Angola. He hosts the radio program A Hora das Cigarras, about African music and poetry, on the channel RDP África. In 2006, he launched, with Conceição Lopes and Fatima Otero, the Brazilian publisher Língua Geral, dedicated exclusively to Portuguese-language authors.

Criticism and interpretation

Agualusa's work has been described as "the lyrical experimentalism and unabashed weirdness of the surrealist". The Portuguese poet Ana Mafalda Leite writes that he sometimes provides "a link between history and fiction, between the account of past events and the description of what might have been possible." She praised his combination of literary style with historical facts.

Awards and honors

In June 2017, Agualusa, alongside Daniel Hahn, his translator, was awarded the International Dublin Literary Award for his novel A General Theory of Oblivion. Agualusa's work beat a shortlist of ten titles from around the world, including one written by Irish author Anne Enright, to claim the €100,000 prize. Agualusa was awarded €75,000 personally, as the translator, Daniel Hahn, was entitled to a €25,000 share of the prize money.

Nação Crioula (1997) was awarded the RTP Great Literary Prize.

The Book of Chameleons (2006) won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2007. He is the first African writer to win the award since its inception in 1990.