José Luís Marques Peixoto (; born September 4, 1974) is a Portuguese author, poet and playwright. A professional writer since 2001, his works have been translated into more than 30 languages.
Biography
José Luis Peixoto was born in the village of
Galveias
Galveias is a civil parish in the municipality of Ponte de Sor, in the Portuguese northern Alentejo, district of Portalegre. The population in 2011 was 1,061,Alentejo. He lived in Galveias until the age of 18. He obtained a bachelor degree on Modern Languages and Literature from NOVA University Lisbon. After university, he was a teacher for some years in several schools in
Portugal
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and Cape Verde, before becoming a professional writer in 2001.
Peixoto's first book, ''Morreste-me'' (English title: ''You Died on Me''), was published in 2000. In 2001, he became the youngest ever recipient of the
José Saramago Prize The José Saramago Literary Prize has been awarded since 1999 by the Círculo de Leitores Foundation to a literary work written in Portuguese by a young author in which the first edition was published in a Lusophone country. It celebrates the attri ...
, at the age of 27, for his novel ''Nenhum Olhar''.
International editions
Translated editions of Peixoto's books are available from the following publishers: Bloomsbury (UK), Doubleday,
Random House
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Companhia das Letras
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(Italy), Kedros (Greece),
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, Atlas Contact (Nederlands), Kineret (Israel), Wsoy (Finland), Polirom (Romania), Bozicevic (Croatia), Bakur Sulakauri (Georgia), Kontrast (Serbia), among others.
Awards
*2001:
José Saramago Prize The José Saramago Literary Prize has been awarded since 1999 by the Círculo de Leitores Foundation to a literary work written in Portuguese by a young author in which the first edition was published in a Lusophone country. It celebrates the attri ...
, for ''Nenhum Olhar'' (best novel published in all Portuguese speaking countries on the two previous years)
*2007: Prémio Cálamo, for ''Cemitério de Pianos'' (best foreign novel published in Spain in 2007)
*2008: Prémio de Poesia Daniel Faria, for ''Gaveta de Papéis'' (best poetry book published in Portugal by a poet under 35 years old)
*2013: Prémio da Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores, for ''A Criança em Ruínas'' (best poetry book published in Portugal on the previous year)
*2013: Prémio Salerno Libro d'Europa, for ''Livro'' (best novel published in Europe in 2012)
*2016: Oceanos Prize, for ''Galveias'' (best novel published in all Portuguese-speaking countries in 2015)
*2019: The Best Translation Award-Japan for ''Galveias'' (best foreign novel translated into Japanese in 2019)
Bibliography
Novels
* 2000: ''Nenhum Olhar'' (English titles: ''Blank Gaze'' (UK), ''The Implacable Order of Things'' (US))
* 2002: ''Uma Casa na Escuridão''
* 2006: ''Cemitério de Pianos'' (English title: ''The Piano Cemetery'')
* 2010: ''Livro''
* 2014: ''Galveias''
* 2015: ''Em Teu Ventre''
* 2019: ''Autobiografia''
Short-novels/fictional narrative
* 2000: ''Morreste-me (''English title: ''You Died on Me)''
* 2003: ''Antídoto''
* 2008: ''Cal''
* 2011: ''Abraço''
Poetry
* 2001: ''A Criança em Ruínas''
* 2002: ''A Casa, a Escuridão''
* 2008: ''Gaveta de Papéis''
*2020: ''Regresso a Casa''
Travel literature
* 2012: ''Dentro do Segredo: Uma viagem na Coreia do Norte''
* 2017: ''O Caminho Imperfeito''
Children's literature
* 2012: ''A Mãe que Chovia''
* 2016: ''Todos os Escritores do Mundo Têm a Cabeça Cheia de Piolhos''