Armando Artur (full name, Armando Artur João) was born on the 28th of December 1962 in the Mozambique province of Zambézia and began his literary career in 1980, as part of "Generation Charrua" (geração Charrua), a group of writers named after the literary magazine Charrua. The Charrua poets developed a style of poetry with an existential element; their works, full of broken and torn identities, reflect the Civil War that dominated life in Mozambique after the Declaration of Independence of 1975.

Armando 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".