Jose Luis Peixoto

Jose Luis Peixoto was born in 1974 in Galveias, Portalegre, in Portugal's Alentejo region. A journalist, novelist, poet, dramatist, literary critic and teacher of languages and contemporary literature, he is also a heavy metal fan and produced a book and record called The Antidote with the Gothic band Moonspell. His work is published and acclaimed in many languages and has won major prizes in Portugal and Brazil, including the Jose Saramago Prize in 2001 for Blank Gaze. Daniel Hahn is a...See more

Jose Luis Peixoto was born in 1974 in Galveias, Portalegre, in Portugal's Alentejo region. A journalist, novelist, poet, dramatist, literary critic and teacher of languages and contemporary literature, he is also a heavy metal fan and produced a book and record called The Antidote with the Gothic band Moonspell. His work is published and acclaimed in many languages and has won major prizes in Portugal and Brazil, including the Jose Saramago Prize in 2001 for Blank Gaze. Daniel Hahn is a translator of fiction and non-fiction, mainly from Portuguese. His translation of The Book of Chameleons by Angolan novelist Jose Eduardo Agualusa won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2007. See less