Mário de Carvalho
Mário Costa Martins de Carvalho 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, 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 won the 1996 Pegasus Prize for Literature and has been translated into English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Greek and Bulgarian. The translator was Gregory Rabassa.
He is the father of the writer Ana Margarida de Carvalho.
Works
Contos da Sétima Esfera, 1981 do Beco das Sardinheiras, 1982O Livro Grande de Tebas, Navio e Mariana, 1982A inaudita guerra da Avenida Gago Coutinho, 1983Fabulário, 1984Contos Soltos, 1986- A Paixão do Conde de Fróis, 1986
- E se Tivesse a Bondade de Me Dizer Porquê?, em colab. com Clara Pinto Correia, 1986
- Os Alferes, 1989
- Quatrocentos Mil Sestércios seguido de O Conde Jano, 1991 - Grande Prémio de Conto Camilo Castelo Branco
- Água em pena de pato, 1991
- Um Deus Passeando pela Brisa da Tarde, 1994 - 1996 Pegasus Prize
- Era Bom que Trocássemos Umas Ideias Sobre o Assunto, 1995
- Apuros de um Pessimista em Fuga, 1999
- Se Perguntarem por Mim, Não Estou seguido de Haja Harmonia, 1999
- Contos Vagabundos, 2000
- Fantasia para dois coronéis e uma piscina, 2003
- O Homem que Engoliu a Lua, 2003
- A Sala Magenta 2008A Arte de Morrer Longe, 2010
- O Homem do Turbante Verde, 2011
- Quando o Diabo Reza, 2011
- A Liberdade De Pátio, 2013