YOUNG BUCUANE,was born in Xai-Xai on 23 October 1951. Graduated in Linguistics from the Faculty of Modern Letters (current Faculty of Letters and Social Sciences) of Eduardo Mondlane University.

He is a member of the Association of Mozambican Writers (AEMO); was Secretary General from November 2005 until February 2008. Previously he was Vice-President of the General Assembly Bureau, twice in a row. It also belonged to the Association Secretariat for the two years 1987/1989 and 1993/1994.

Superior Technical Board of Petromoc where is Communication and Image Advisor for the Administration and Editor-in-Chief, reporter (including photography) and editor of the Magazine and the Petro Notícias Newsletter.

Member of the National Election Commission (CNE), since 2007, where he currently serves as Coordinator of the Committee on Internal and External Relations and Spouseship.

He was a member of the Board of Directors of FUNDAC – Fund for Artistic and Cultural Development between 1998 and 2003. Published:

• Root and Corner – 1984 (poetry);
• Requiem: with dry eyes – 1987 (poesia); Xefina – 1989 (tales);
• Secrets of the Soul – 1989 (poetry);
• Limbo Verde – 1992 (poetry);
• Kumbeza – 1997 (tales);
• The Complaint – 2003 (romance);
• Epicentro – 2005 (poetry);
• Salt of the Earth: Stories of our ground – 2005 (tales);
• Marco Zero – 2005 (poetry);
• Zevo, O Miliciano (and other short stories) – 2009 (tales);
• Uncover (and other stories) – 2009 (tales);
• Xefina (2nd edition) (tales);
• Co-author in Malehice Church, 50 years of existence – 2003 (history).

He is the founder of the literary magazine Charrua and its first coordinator. He coordinated the Reading and Writing page of the newspaper Domingo, during the three-year period 1991/1992/1993. 1st Prize ex-Aequo de Poesia, on the occasion of the 260 years of Inhambane City.

Widely inserted in anthologies at the levels of poetry and prose, nationally and internationally. It is in My Maputo is..., Mocambique berättar: Kärlekens ärr (Sweden), New Mozambican Poetry (Mozambique), Dream Mamana Africa (Brazil), Gedichte aus Mozambique (RDA), Combat Poetry-3 (Mozambique), The Hands of Blacks – Anthology of Mozambican short story (Mozambique), Brief collection of Mozambican literature (Portugal) Msaho – Runoja ja ketomuksia (Filland) and other publications.

Author of communications presented in symposia and other literary and essay meetings.

Its literary production is dispersed in several national and foreign newspapers and magazines, including: Tempo, Domingo, Notícias, Diário de Moçambique, Charrua, Forja, 25 de Setembro (Mozambique), Lotua (Asiatic Writers Association), Diário de Sofia (Bulgaria), África/Literatura, Arte e Cultura and Finally Domingo! (Portugal), magazine Unimed and Diário de Pernambuco (Brazil). Part of his literary production is translated into several foreign languages.