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Artur Carlos Maurício Pestana dos Santos (born in Benguela, Angola, in 1941) is a major Angolan writer of fiction. He writes under the name Pepetela.

A white Angolan, Pepetela fought as a member of the MPLA in the long guerrilla war for Angola's independence. Much of his writing deals with Angola's political history in the twentieth century. Mayombe for example is a novel that portrays the lives of a group of MPLA guerrillas who are involved in the anti-colonial struggle, Yaka follows the lives of members of a white settler family in the coastal town of Benguela and A Geração da Utopia reveals the disillusionment of young Angolans during the post-independence period.

After the country's liberation from Portugal, he assumed the post of Minister of Education and later became a professor of sociology at the University of Angola, now known as the University of Agostinho Neto.

Pepetela won the Camões Prize, the world's highest honour for lusophone literature, in 1997.

• Parábola do Cágado Velho
• Ngunga's Adventures: A story of Angola (in Portuguese, As Aventuras de Ngunga), 1972
• Muana Puó, 1978
• Mayombe, 1980
• Yaka, 1984
• O Cão e os Caluandas, 1985
• Luandando, 1990
• Lueji, o Nascimento de um Império, 1990
• A Geração da Utopia, 1992
• The Return of the Water Spirit (in Portuguese, O Desejo de Kianda), 1995
• The Glorious Family (in Portuguese, A Glorioso Família), 1996
• A Montanha da Água Lilás, 2000
• Jaime Bunda, agente secreto, 2001
• Jaime Bunda e a morte do americano, 2003

• A Corda, 1978
• A Revolta da Casa dos Ídolos, 1980

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