Fundação Fernando Leite Couto counts with the support and contribution of a Committee of Honour, composed by honorary members that, due to their relevance in the fields of literature, arts and culture, provide their valuable contribution to the promotion of the objectives of the Foundation.
Renown Brazilian academic, professor of African Literature at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, it is one of the most important names in the promotion of Mozambican literature in Brazil. She has produced and published recension critics of the works of Fernando Couto and has kept with him regular correspondence until the end of his life.
The most well known political activist and defensor of human rights in Mozambique. Intelectual figure of uncomparable dimension in the Mozambican culture, she is known in the entire world as an emblematic face of our country.
Actress and cultural promoter, develops an important work in the cultural production in the city of Beira, where she has received and promoted the works of the poet Fernando Couto.
She is the most published and translated writter in Mozambique. Paulina’s work was published with Ndjira, the publishing company where Fernando Couto was the director.
One of the most important female voices of the Mozambican poetry, she has kept with Fernando Couto a friendship relation that has lasted until the end of the life of the patron of this Foundation.
The current chancellor of the Unilúrio University, he’s regarded as one of the most important voices of the Mozambican Academics, with a PhD and research work in Literature.
The most known, awarded and translated writer from Angola.
Sociologist, journalist and intellectual of renown prestige, has directed the journal where Fernando Couto worked for many years. He was, later, the Minister of Information of Mozambique in a time when Couto was heading the School of Journalism.
Journalist, poet and academic with a vast literature production, was a friend and work colleague of Fernando Couto.
Chancellor of the Polytechnic University, a respected figure as an intellectual, academic and expert and promoter of the Mozambican Literature within and outside Mozambique.