Manuel Rui Alves Monteiro is an Angolan writer of poetry, novels, theater plays, and short stories. He has been described as "the chronicler par excellence of postindependence Angola" through fiction that offers "subtle, complex, pointed, and oftentimes humorous portrayals of Angola since the early years of the MPLA euphoria, in which he played a political role."

The Granta Book of the African Short Story
2011
ISBN 9781847082473
Quem me dera ser onda
1975
ISBN 9789897022166
Crónica de um mujimbo
1991
ISBN 9789729013447
1 morto & os vivos
1992
ISBN 9789728028077
Yes, comrade!
1993
ISBN 9780816619665
Rioseco
1997
ISBN 9789728028893
Da palma da mão
1998
ISBN 9789728423292
Saxafone e metáfora
2001
ISBN 9789727950126
Um anel na areia
2002
ISBN 9789727950393
O manequim e o piano
2005
ISBN 9789727951260
Estorias de conversa
2006
ISBN 9789722117807
A casa do rio
2007
ISBN 9789722118941
Janela de Sónia
2009
ISBN 9789722120210
A trança
2013
ISBN 9789898528919
Travessia por imagem
2013
ISBN 9789898580085
A bicha e a fila
2013
ISBN 9788561191962
A acácia e os pássaros
2016
ISBN 9789897610868
O kaputo camionista e Eusébio
2017
ISBN 9789897022548