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We are excited to announce that our author Mia Couto will receive the PEN America Award for Achievement in International Literature at the 2025 PEN America Literary Awards.
At the award ceremony on May 8—called the “Oscars for books”— PEN America will confer the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature to Mozambican author Mia Couto for his body of work. The PEN/Nabokov jury cited him for probing his homeland’s fraught history “as well as essential riddles of identity and existence. Couto has held “a singular place in the landscape of both African and world literature,” the judges wrote.
The PEN America awards are juried by panels of esteemed, award-winning authors, editors, translators, and critics. These authors are committed to recognizing their contemporaries, from promising debut writers to those who have already had a continuous and lasting impact on the literary landscape.
