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Mario de Carvalho (born 25 September 1944, Lisbon) is a Portuguese playwright and novelist. ==Life== Mario de Carvalho was born in Lisbon, Portugal. He was involved in the resistance against Salazar’s dictatorship (a member of the Portuguese Communist Party), and had an adventurous youth. During the military service, he was jailed, tortured (sleep deprived for 11 days) and eventually escaped to Sweden, running off the country by foot. After the democratic revolution, 1974, he returned to Portugal and practiced law for many years. In 1981 he published his first book of short-stories and initialized a successful writing career. He has published numerous novels, story collections and plays and has been widely translated. His style is simultaneously versatile and crafted, an his fictions are settled in various times and spaces. A God Strolling in the Cool of the Evening («Um Deus Passeando Pela Brisa da Tarde») was the winner of 1996 Pegasus Prize for Literature and is translated in English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Greek and Bulgarian. The novel, a historical timeless tale on human nature, had excellent reviews, and is considered a classic in the genre. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mario de Carvalho」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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