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Mário De Carvalho
Mário Costa Martins de Carvalho (born 25 September 1944, in Lisbon) is a Portuguese playwright and novelist. Life Mario de Carvalho was born in Lisbon, Portugal. He was involved in the resistance against António de Oliveira Salazar's dictatorship (a member of the Portuguese Communist Party), and had an adventurous youth. During his military service he was jailed and tortured, and eventually escaped on foot to Sweden. After the Carnation Revolution in 1974 he returned to Portugal and practiced law for many years. His first book of short stories was published in 1981. He has published novels, story collections and plays and has been widely translated. His work has been made into films. His historical fiction is set in various times and places. '' A God Strolling in the Cool of the Evening'' (''Um Deus Passeando Pela Brisa da Tarde'') won the 1996 Pegasus Prize for Literature and has been translated into English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Greek and Bulgarian. The tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisbon
Lisbon ( ; ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 567,131, as of 2023, within its administrative limits and 3,028,000 within the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, metropolis, as of 2025. Lisbon is mainland Europe's westernmost capital city (second overall after Reykjavík, Reykjavik), and the only one along the Atlantic coast, the others (Reykjavik and Dublin) being on islands. The city lies in the western portion of the Iberian Peninsula, on the northern shore of the River Tagus. The western portion of its metro area, the Portuguese Riviera, hosts the westernmost point of Continental Europe, culminating at Cabo da Roca. Lisbon is one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest cities in the world and the second-oldest European capital city (after Athens), predating other modern European capitals by centuries. Settled by pre-Celtic tribes and later founded and civilized by the Phoenicians, Julius Caesar made it a municipium ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ana Margarida De Carvalho
Ana Margarida Taborda Duarte Martins de Carvalho (born 1969 in Lisbon) is a Portuguese writer and journalist. She is the only Portuguese writer to be award with the Grande Prémio de Romance e Novela APE/DGLB, Grande Prémio da Associação Portuguesa de Escritores (APE/DGLB) for each of her three successive works of literary fiction; they were for two novels and a short-story collection. Biography and work Born in Lisbon, in 1969, her father is Portuguese writer Mário de Carvalho, Ana Margarida de Carvalho graduated in Law from the University of Lisbon School of Law. She was awarded in 7 distinct occasions for her work as a journalist, working for over 25 years at ''Revista Visão'', a news magazine where she was both an editor and a leading reporter, as well as collaborating with a number of other cultural and news publications such as ''Jornal de Letras'', ''Revista Ler'', ''Marie Claire'', ''Egoísta'', ''Colóquio Letras'' and the television news channel Sociedade Indepen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
