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	Pepetela
		Pepetelas karaktärer slits mellan krav som den moderna tiden ställer på människan och ett äldre samhälles sedvanor.
		Bokförlaget Tranan presenterar här Pepetelas andra roman på svenska, Hunden i Luanda.
		Pepetela (pseudonym för Artur Pestana), född 1941, är en av Angolas mest framstående författare.
	www.tranan.nu /authors/pepetela.html (347 words)

	Jaime Bunda, Agente Secreto - Pepetela
		His good-natured incompetence and delusions are amusing enough, but it's a long book and even that loses its charm after a while (and the payoff of the successes he has, some practically falling in his lap, also fall a bit flat because the element of dumb (very dumb) luck plays such a large role).
		Adding to the mix, Pepetela also plays with his narrators: there's an editorial voice that breaks in now and again, and when the whim moves it, the narrator is switched.
		Pepetela (actually: Artur Carlos Maurício Pestana dos Santos) was born in Benguela in 1941.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/poafrica/pepetela1.htm (1048 words)

	Literatura Angolana
		“Pepetela” became the guerrilla code-name, and later the pen-name, of Artur Pestana, a sixth-generation Angolan of predominantly European ancestry born in Benguela, in the country’s southern coastal region, in 1941.
		Pepetela verbindet in seinem Roman Jaime Bunda, Geheimagent Vergnügen mit Aufklärung.
		Pepetelas Sprache - in der Übersetzung von Barbara Mesquita gut erhalten - ist präzise, schnörkellos, klar und nicht verkünstelt.
	www.arlindo-correia.com /121105.html (3803 words)

	Welcome to the African Review of Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Pepetela is one of Africa’s most prolific and ingenuous authors, yet only four of his works have been translated into English, which is less than a third of his creative output stretching back more than 30 years.
		Pepetela splashes a panorama of Luanda, of its people in the musseques (or overcrowded townships) to those who travel in constant air-conditioned luxury.
		Pepetela is the nome du guerre of Artur Carlos Maurício Pestana dos Santos, born in Benguela, Angola in 1941.
	www.africanreviewofbooks.com /Review.asp?book_id=141 (1294 words)

	Boynton/Cook
		Pepetela is the nom de plume and nom de guerre of Artur Carlos Maurício Pestana.
		Pepetela is the author of many novels including Yaka (1984), which won Angola's National Literature Prize in 1986.
		In 1997 Pepetela was awarded the Camões Prize, which is the most prestigious literary award in the Portuguese-speaking world.
	www.boyntoncook.com /authors/1614.aspx (194 words)

	Heinemann Books: Authors: Pepetela
		Pepetela is the nom de plume and nom de guerre of Artur Carlos Maurício Pestana.
		Pepetela is the author of many novels including Yaka (1984), which won Angola's National Literature Prize in 1986.
		In 1997 Pepetela was awarded the Camões Prize, which is the most prestigious literary award in the Portuguese-speaking world.
	books.heinemann.com /authors/1614.aspx (193 words)

	Pepetela Books (Used, New, Out-of-Print) - Alibris
		Pepetela's novel is a fascinating study of the tensions produced by racism, tribalism, and sexual morals.
		In this book Pepetela offers a scathing critique of the modern-day Angolan elite for squandering the sacrifices of the past.
		Sent in modern-day Luanda, this satirical crime novel introduces readers to Jaime Bunda, an overweight, incompetent detective set on the trail of a murderer.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Pepetela (202 words)

	Pepetela
		Pepetela, born in 1941 in the city of Benguela, is recognised as a leading novelist with a consummate ability to mesh personal and political elements within a historical context.
		Pepetela, along with José Luandino, one of the best writers of the post-colonial generation.
		Pepetela pokes fun at the Americans for their seemingly pathological anxiety of terror attacks as well as mocking the antiamericanism of the Angolans.
	www.mertin-litag.de /authors_htm/Pepetela.htm (793 words)

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		It is a comedy of errors facilitated by corruption and nepotism, but a post-modernist novel in which Pepetela challenges his own place as writer, the problems of modern Angola and its place in the world.
		Pepetela was the guerrilla code-name and became the pen-name of Artur Pestana, who was born in Benguela, in the Angola's southern coastal region, in 1941.
		He trained as a sociologist and became an MPLA operative during the 1960s, fighting as a guerrilla for seven years against the Portuguese colonisers, rising to the position of a regional commander during he defence of Angola against the first South African invasion in 1975.
	www.aflamebooks.com /Titles.html (743 words)

	H-Net Review: Eugene M. Baer on Yaka
		It is through the microcosm of the lives and the psyches of several generations of this family that Pepetela chronicles and explores the Angolan colonists and colonialism itself.
		According to Clive Willis, Pepetela uses elements of Greek myth as symbols of colonial prejudice and the Angolan artifacts (for example, the Yaka statue and a dagger) as symbols of indigenous culture.
		After being relieved of that office, Pepetela took a post as a professor of sociology at the University of Angola, joined the board of directors of the Union of Angolan Writers, and began to dedicate more time to writing.
	www.h-net.msu.edu /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=8151888342598 (1921 words)

	The South African - The no.1 Newspaper for South Africans living abroad
		Reviewers and commentators have interpreted this book as a perceptive critique of the country by one of its most celebrated authors.
		Pepetela takes endless sideswipes at bureaucratic bungling, bribery and class contrast.
		So, given a choice between the English and African characters for someone to hold a conversation with at one of those cocktail parties so beloved of 007, I choose Bunda - although there may not be much room left for me on the sofa.
	www.southafrican.co.uk /living.aspx (551 words)

	Prince Claus Fund: Prince Claus Awards 1999 - Pepetela (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Prince Claus Fund: Prince Claus Awards 1999 - Pepetela
		Pepetela (1941, Benguela, Angola) tells an alternative Angolan tale: that of the Creole and white population of his country.
		Pepetela was born as the son of Portuguese parents; he was actively engaged in the guerrilla against the colonial power and continues to involve himself in the social debate in Angola.
	www.princeclausfund.org /en/what_we_do/awards/1999pepetela.shtml (86 words)

	Powell's Books - The Return of the Water Spirit by Angola Pepetela
		This book is a scathing critique of Angola's ruling elite, for abandoning their socialist principles in favour of rampant capitalism.
		Pepetela is the nom de plume and nom de guerre of Artur Carlos Mauricio Pestana.
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	powells.com /biblio?isbn=0435912100 (497 words)

	Amazon.com: Yaka (African Writers Series): Books: Pepetela (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		For its attempt to bridge that gap, Heinemann is to be commended.
		Pepetela, nom de plume and nom de guerre of Angolan writer Arthur Carlos Mauricio Pesta?a, also deserves a nod for this richly detailed recounting of Angolan history (1890-1975) through the saga of the Semedo family.
		What a shame that more of Pepetela's work has not been translated.
	www.amazon.com /Yaka-African-Writers-Pepetela/dp/0435909622 (878 words)

	index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Pepetela, pseudónimo de Artur Pestana, é natural de Benguela, onde nasceu em 1941.
		Numa das suas entrevistas publicadas em livro, Pepetela revela as suas grandes preocupações com a
		E atribuía tal propensão e a recorrência do tema na sua obra ao facto de ter estudado Sociologia.
	www.nexus.ao /kandjimbo/pepetela.htm (381 words)

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