Paulina Chiziane

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Paulina Chiziane (born 4 June 1955, Manjacaze, Mozambique) is an author of novels and short stories in the Portuguese language. She studied at Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo. She was the first woman in Mozambique to publish a novel and her writing is very polemic, for example, her first novel Balada do Amor ao Vento discusses polygamy in southern Mozambique during the colonial period.

Her novel Niketche: Uma História de Poligamia won the José Craveirinha Prize in 2003.

[edit] Novels

  • Balada de Amor ao Vento (1990)
  • Ventos do Apocalipse (1996)
  • O Setimo Juramento (2000)
  • Niketche: Uma História de Poligamia (2002) - Companhia das Letras, ISBN 8535904719
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