List of Angolan writers

This is a list of Angolan writers, ordered alphabetically by surname.

• Henrique Abranches (1932–2004), poet
• Antero Abreu (1927–2017), poet
• José Eduardo Agualusa (born 1960), Portuguese journalist and fiction writer
• Fernando Costa Andrade (1936–2009), poet
• Mário Pinto de Andrade (1928–1990), poet and politician
• Mario António (1934–1989), poet
• Gabriela Antunes (1937–2004), folklore
• Arlindo Barbeitos (1940–2021), poet
• Geraldo Bessa Victor (1917–1985), poet
• Dulce Braga (born 1958), autobiographer
• António Cardoso (1933–2006), short story writer
• Mendes de Carvalho, writing as Uanhenga Xitu, politician and Africanist writer in Portuguese and Kimbundu
• Lisa Castel (born 1955), writer and journalist
• Alberto Graves Chakussanga (1978–2010), murdered Angolan radio journalist
• Maria João Chipalavela
• Tomaz Vieira da Cruz (1900–1960), poet
• Viriato da Cruz (1928–1973), poet
• Alexandre Dáskalos (1924–1961), poet
• Maria Alexandre Dáskalos (1957–2021)
• Raul David (1918–2005?)
• Lopito Feijóo (born 1963), poet
• Isabel Ferreira (born 1958)
• Ernesto Lara Filho (1932–1977), poet
• Domingos Florentino (born 1953)
• Henrique Guerra (born 1937), short story writer
• Duque Kate Hama (born 1963)
• António Jacinto (1924–1991), poet and political activist
• Sousa Jamba (born 1966), Anglophone journalist and novelist
• Kandjila (born 1973)
• Luis Kandjimbo (born 1960), essayist and critic
• Dia Kassembe (born 1946), Francophone writer and novelist
• Alda Lara (1930–1962), poet
• Manuel de Santos Lima (born 1935)
• Amélia da Lomba (born 1961), writer and journalist
• Reis Luís, or "Mbwanga" (born 1968), Portuguese-language novelist
• João Maimona (born 1955), poet and essayist
• Rafael Marques (born 1971), journalist
• André Massaki (1923–1996), politician and writer
• Joaqim Dias Cordeiro da Matta (1857–1894), folklorist
• Cikakata Mbalundu (Aníbal Simões) (born 1955)
• Manuel Rui Monteiro (born 1941), poet
• Agostinho Neto (1922–1979), poet
• Frederico Ningi (born 1959), poet, journalist
• Ondjaki (born 1977), poet, novelist and dramatist
• Ernesto Cochat Osório (1917–2002), doctor and poet
• Pepetela, pen-name of Artur Carlos Maurício Pestana dos Santos (born 1941), writer of fiction
• José de Fontes Pereira (1838–1891), early Angolan journalist
• Wanda Ramos (1948–1998)
• Inácio Rebelo de Andrade (born 1935)
• Oscar Ribas (1909–2004), novelist
• Alcides Sakala Simões (born 1953)
• Ana de Santana (born 1960)
• Aires de Almeida Santos
• Arnaldo Santos (born 1936), poet
• Maria Perpétua Candeias da Silva, teacher and short story writer
• Paula Tavares (born 1952), poet
• Timóteo Ulika (Cornélio Caley)
• José Luandino Vieira (born 1935), short-story writer and novelist
• Ngudia Wendel (1940), guerrilla leader, poet and physician
• Uanhenga Xitu (1924–2014), writer and nationalist
• Mota Yekenha (born 1962)

See also

• List of African writers by country
• List of Portuguese-language poets

References