Bruno Vieira Amaral

(Portugal, 1978)
Collaborator in the magazine Ler, the newspaper Expresso and Rádio Observador. He made his debut with the essay Guia para 50 Personagens da Ficção Portuguesa in 2013, published by Guerra e Paz. His first novel, As Primeiras Coisas (Quetzal, 2013), was awarded the PEN Clube Narrative Prize, the Fernando Namora Literary Prize, the Time Out and the José Saramago Literary Award in 2015. In 2016 he was selected as one of the Ten New Voices from Europe, by the platform Literature Across Frontiers.
His second novel, Hoje Estarás Comigo no Paraíso (Quetzal, 2017), received the 2016-2017 Tabula Rasa Prize in the fiction category, and took second place in the 2018 Oceans Prize. In 2018 his best scattered texts were gathered, in the volume Manobras de Guerrilha, and in 2020 he published the book of short stories Uma Ida ao Motel, awarded the following year with the Camilo Castelo Branco /APE Short Story Grand Prize. In 2021 he published Marginal Integrated, biography of the writer José Cardoso Pires. A year later, he met in O Segundo Coração a series of chronicles about the past and memory. In 2024 he published his third novel, Toda a Gente Tem um Plan . The rights to his books have been sold to several countries, including Spain, Italy, Brazil, Hungary, Egypt and Israel.

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