Manuel Rui Alves Monteiro (born 4 November 1941)[1] is an Angolan writer of poetry, novels, theater plays, and short stories.

He was on the editorial board of Vértice, the journal of the Center of Literary Studies in Coimbra, where he published his first prose fiction works in the early 1970s.

[3] In the aftermath of the Portuguese military coup on April 25, 1974, Rui returned to Angola to serve as the MPLA Minister of Information in the transitional government established by the Alvor Agreement.

[4] He then served as Angola's first representative to the Organization of African Unity and the United Nations, and as rector of the University of Nova Lisboa.

[6][2] Rui's 1982 book Quem Me Dera Ser Onda has been described as "a classic of Angolan (and Lusophone African) literature".