Gonçalo M. Tavares

Gonçalo M. Tavares was born in Luanda in 1970 and teaches Theory of Science in Lisbon. His work has already received an impressive amount of literary awards, among them the Prix Littéraire Européen, the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger 2010, which has so far been given to authors like Salman Rushdie, John Updike, and Philip Roth. Other awards include the Saramago Prize, the Prémio Portugal Telecom de Literatura em Língua Portuguesa, the SPA Author's Prize, the Prémio Melhor Narrativa Ficcional da Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores and the Prémio Literário Fundação Inês de Castro.