awarded the RTP Great Literary Prize. The Book of Chameleons (2006) won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2007. He is the first African writer to win the award since its inception in 1990. Agualusa benefited from three literary grants: the first awarded by the Portuguese Centro Nacional de Cultura in 1997 to write Nação Crioula (Creole); the second given in the year 2000 by the Portuguese Fundação Oriente allowing him to visit Goa, India, for three months which resulted in Um estranho em Goa; the third, in 2001, was prestiged by the German Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst. Thanks to that grant, he lived one year in Berlin, where he wrote O Ano em que Zumbi Tomou o Rio. In 2009, he was invited by the Dutch Residency for Writers in Amsterdam, where he wrote Barroco Tropical. References Further reading Brookshaw, David. 2002. Voices from Lusophone borderlands: the Angolan identities of António Agostinho Neto, Jorge Arrimar and José Eduardo Agualusa. Maynooth: National University of Ireland, Maynooth. Guterres, Maria. "History and Fiction in José Eduardo Agualusa's Novels." Fiction in the Portuguese-Speaking World. Ed. Charles M. Kelley. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2000. pp. 117–38. Print. External links Homepage of José Eduardo Agualusa Biography from the international literature festival berlin "Angolan author wins fiction prize", BBC News, 1 May 2007 "An Interview with José Eduardo Agualusa" "A General Theory Of Oblivion by José Eduardo Agualusa; trans. Daniel Hahn, book review", The Independent, 2 July 2015 "A General Theory of Oblivion by José Eduardo Agualusa—Review", The Big Issue, 15 July 2015 1960 births Living people People from Huambo Angolan people of Portuguese descent Angolan people of Brazilian descent Angolan writers Angolan radio presenters Angolan journalists Angolan newspaper journalists