First collection of Mia Couto's essays to appear in English Gathers journalism, talks, op-eds, essays, and opinion-pieces from over the course of his career Mia Couto's works have been translated into 20 languages and have sold nearly 2 million copies worldwide Winner of the $50,000 Neustadt Prize for Literature, 2014 (World Literature Today) Winner of the €100,000 Camões Prize for Literature, 2013 Contender in the 2014 Tournament of Books (against James McBride) Widely regarded as one of Africa's foremost contemporary novelists, comparable to Coetzee First African author to be awarded the Latin Union Award of Romanic Languages (2007) The Tuner of Silences was recognized as one of the 20 most important books to be published in France in 2011 Possible promotion at MLA Mature work from an author widely regarded as one of the best prose stylists writing in Portuguese today