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Armando Artur (born 1962 in Mozambique) began his writing career as part of the "Generation Charrua", a group of writers named after the literary magazine Charrua who came together in Mozambique in the Eighties. The Charrua poets developed a poetics with an existentialist tinge; their works full of broken and torn identities reflect the Civil War that dominated life in Mozambique after the Declaration of Independence of 1975.
Artur is a member of various African writers' associations. As well as in his own books, his poems have appeared in various anthologies, school books, literary journals and newspapers and in translation. In 2002 Armando Artur won the "Rui de Noronha – FUNDAC" Prize and in 2004 the "Prémio Nacional de Literatura José Craveirinha".