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 translator was Gregory Rabassa.
He is the father of the writer Ana Margarida de Carvalho.
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