Artur Carlos Maurício Pestana dos Santos (born in Benguela, Angola, in 1941) is a major Angolan writer of fiction. He writes under the name Pepetela. Benguela is a port in western Angola, south of Luanda. ... 1941 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

A white Angolan, Pepetela fought as a member of the MPLA in the long guerrilla war for Angola's independence. Much of his writing deals with Angola's political history in the twentieth century. Mayombe for example is a novel that portrays the lives of a group of MPLA guerrillas who are involved in the anti-colonial struggle, Yaka follows the lives of members of a white settler family in the coastal town of Benguela and A Geração da Utopia reveals the disillusionment of young Angolans during the post-independence period. The MPLA flag The Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (Movimiento Popular de Libertação de Angola) is an Angolan political party that has ruled the country since independence in 1975. ...

After the country's liberation from Portugal, he assumed the post of Minister of Education and later became a professor of sociology at the University of Angola.

Pepetela won the Camões Prize, the world's highest honour for lusophone literature, in 1997. The Camoens Prize (Portuguese, Prémio Camões), named after Camoens (author of the Lusiad), is the most important literary prize for the Portuguese language, are awarded annually by the Fundação Biblioteca Nacional (National Library Foundation) (of Portugal) and by the Departamento Nacional do Livro (National Book Department) (of... Portuguese (português) is a Romance language predominantly spoken in Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Guinea Bissau, Macau (China), Mozambique, Portugal, and São Tomé and Príncipe. ... 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Novels

• Parábola do Cágado Velho
• Ngunga's Adventures: A story of Angola (in Portuguese, As Aventuras de Ngunga), 1972
• Muana Puó, 1978
• Mayombe, 1980
• Yaka, 1984
• O Cão e os Caluandas, 1985
• Luandando, 1990
• Lueji, o Nascimento de um Império, 1990
• A Geração da Utopia, 1992
• The Return of the Water Spirit (in Portuguese, O Desejo de Kianda), 1995

Plays

• A Corda, 1978
• A Revolta da Casa dos Ídolos, 1980