João Paulo Borges Coelho
João Paulo Borges Coelho (born in
Porto,
Portugal in 1955) is a
Mozambican historian and writer. He studied history in
Maputo and was awarded a
PhD in economic and social history from the
University of Bradford. He is professor of contemporary history at the
Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo, and editor of ''Arquivo'', the journal of the Mozambican National Archive in Maputo, a specialist in military history and has acted as an academic adviser to the Mozambican Ministry of Defence. He is also a writer; in 2009 he won the
LEYA Novel Prize.
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