Background
Mario de Carvalho was born on September 25, 1944, in Lisbon, Portugal. He is the son of Domingus de Carvalho, a businessman and a writer, and Maria Luisa de Carvalho.
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Mario de Carvalho was born on September 25, 1944, in Lisbon, Portugal. He is the son of Domingus de Carvalho, a businessman and a writer, and Maria Luisa de Carvalho.
Carvalho attended law school.
In his youth, de Carvalho was part of the movement against the dictator Salazar. He served in the army and was jailed there, tortured and eventually escaped to Sweden. He returned to Portugal in 1974 after the Democratic Revolution and practised law for many years.
De Carvalho published his first book of novels in 1981, beginning writing career very successfully. He has written a big number of novels, story collections and plays.
The novel A God Strolling in the Cool of the Evening («Um Deus Passeando Pela Brisa da Tarde») became a historical timeless tale on human nature, had excellent reviews, and is considered a classic in the genre.
De Carvalho received the Premio Cidade de Lisboa in 1982, for O livro grande de tebas navio e mariana, as well as the Premio Dom Dinis in 1987, for A paixao do conde de frois. Another prizes which he has is the Grande Premio from Portuguese Association of Writers in 1992 and in 1995, for Quatrocentos mil sestercios and for Um deus passeando pela brisa da tarde (A God Strolling in the Cool of the Evening); and the Premio Fernando Namora in 1996, for Um deus passeando pela brisa da tarde. The same year De Carvalho won one more prize for his Um Deus Passeando Pela Brisa da Tarde, the Pegasus Prize for Literature. It was translated into English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Greek and Bulgarians.
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Quotations: “My motivation for writing is a childlike impulse to multiply characters and twist the language. I write only at night while every movement outside is suspended. I need the maximum amount of silence. Sometimes I am inspired by a sentence heard on the bus, sometimes by insomnia, when a person begins to imagine things.”
De Carvalho is a member of the Portuguese Society of Authors and a member of the board of directors of the Portuguese Association of Writers.
De Carvalho married Maria Helena Taborda Duarte on August 3, 1969. They produced two children - Ava Margorida de Carvalho and Rita Taborda Duarte.
