José Luandino Vieira (born José Vieira Mateus da Graça on May 4th, 1935) is an Angolan writer of short fiction and novels. He was devoted to Angolan independence, resulting in his arrest in 1961 after an interview with the BBC in which he disclosed secret lists of deserters from the Portuguese army fighting in Africa. He would remain in jail for eleven years. After the Angolan independence, Luandino Vieira was nominated for various positions: organized and directed the Popular Television of Angola from 1975 to 1978, directed the Department of Revolutionary Orientation MPLA until 1979; organized and directed the Angolan Institute of Cinema, 1979-1984. In the field of literature, he was one of the founders of the Union of Angolan Writers in 1975, and was its General Secretary since the end of 1980.He was also deputy secretary general of the Association of Afro-Asian Writers, from 1979 to 1984, and later became its secretary general ...

Ondjaki is a pen name of Ndalu de Almeida, born in 1977 in Luanda. The memories from his childhood spent in the Angolan capital inspired him to write the novel Bom Dia, Camaradas (Good Morning, Comrades) (2001) and a collection of short stories Os da Minha Rua (The Ones From My Street) (2007). After completing secondary education in a public school in Luanda, he moved to Portugal where he was awarded a degree in Sociology at ISCTE in Lisbon in 2002. He published his first book, a collection of poetry Actu Sanguíneu (2000) after winning the second prize in the António Jacinto literary competition. Since then, he has published several books of poetry, short stories, novels and children literature. For Os da Minha Rua, Ondjaki was awarded Grande Prémio de ...

Pepetela is the literary pseudonym of Artur Carlos Maurício Pestana dos Santos, born on 29th of October 1941 in Benguela (Angola) in a family of Portuguese ancestry. He attended primary school in Benguela, where he had contact with colleagues of different social and racial status. He continued his education at Liceu Diogo Cão in Lubango and later moved to Portugal for higher education. There he attended the Casa dos Estudantes do Império, the cradle of African nationalist movements in Lisbon. When the colonial war broke out, Pepetela was compulsorily conscripted to the Portuguese army to fight in Angola. Instead, he fled Portugal and moved abroad, first to Paris, and later to Algiers. While studying Sociology in Algiers in 1963, Pepetela was approached by the MPLA member Henrique Abranches, who enlisted ...