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Jun 04, 1955 Manjacaze, Gaza Province, Mozambique 69 years old
Mozambican writer
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About Paulina Chiziane
- Paulina "Poulli" Chiziane (born 4 June 1955, Manjacaze, southern province of Gaza, Mozambique) is an author of novels and short stories in the Portuguese language.
- She studied at Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo.
- She was born to a Protestant family that moved from Gaza to the capital Maputo (then Lourenço Marques) during the writer's early childhood.
- At home she spoke Chopi and Ronga. Chiziane was the first woman in Mozambique to publish a novel.
- Her writing has generated some polemical discussions about social issues, such as the practice of polygamy in the country.
- For example, her first novel, Balada do Amor ao Vento (1990), discusses polygamy in southern Mozambique during the colonial period.
- Related to her active involvement in the politics of Frelimo (Liberation Front of Mozambique), her narrative often reflects the social uneasiness of a country ravaged and divided by the war of liberation and the civil conflicts that followed independence.
- Her novel Niketche: Uma História de Poligamia won the José Craveirinha Prize in 2003.
