Gonçalo M. Tavares.

Born in 1970, Gonçalo Manuel Albuquerque Tavares is one of the leading voices in contemporary Portuguese literature. A prolific writer and professor of epistemology at the University of Lisbon, he studied physics, sports, and the arts before devoting himself fully to writing in the early 2000s. Since then, he has published novels, essays, poetry, plays, and unclassifiable works, which have been translated into some 50 languages.

His work, praised by José Saramago, Eduardo Lourenço, and Enrique Vila-Matas, has received numerous major awards: the Saramago Prize, the Ler/BCP Prize, the Portugal Telecom Prize, and the Best Foreign Book Prize in France for Learning to Pray in the Age of Technology.

He is the author of Lisbonne Sketchbook, published by Éditions du Pacifique.