José Cardoso Pires

José Cardoso Pires was born on 2 October 1925 in São João do Peso, in the municipality of Vila de Rei, and grew up in Lisbon; his father was in the merchant navy. He left mathematics for the merchant navy, then made his living from journalism and publishing. He taught Portuguese and Brazilian literature at King's College London from 1969 to 1971 and was deputy director of the Diário de Lisboa in 1974 and 1975. He said he always doubted what he wrote. Struck by a stroke in 1995, he drew a narrative from it; awarded the Pessoa Prize in 1997, he died in Lisbon on 26 October 1998.

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• NovelO DelfimJosé Cardoso Pires · 1968not translated into EnglishLiterature