Honwana, Luís Bernardo, 1942-
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- Affiliation End: 2002
- Organization: Unesco
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Lourenço Marques (Mozambique)
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found: His Nós matamos o Cão-Tinhoso, 1980:t.p. (Luís Bernardo Honwana)
found: LC in RLIN, 9-17-87(Honwana, Luís Bernardo, 1942- )
found: Wikipedia, viewed May 2, 2017(Luis Bernardo Honwana (born 1942 in Lourenço Marques (present-day Maputo), Mozambique) is Mozambican author and statesman; became a militant with FRELIMO in 1964, incarcerated for 3 years; studied law in Portugal, worked as a journalist; director of President's office under Samora Machel, then Secretary of State for Culture in 1981; on the Executive Board of UNESCO 1987-1991, chairman of its Intergovernmental Committee for the World Decade for Culture and Development; appointed director of the newly opened UNESCO office in South Africa in 1995; retired from UNESCO in 2002, has been active in research in the arts, history and ethnolinguistics; author of a single book, Nós Matamos o Cão-Tinhoso (1964), a collection of short stories set in the 1960s colonial era)
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1987-10-05: new
2021-04-27: revised
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