Manuel de QueirozManuel de Queiroz was born in Porto, North of Portugal, and lives in Lisbon where he works as a writer, architect, and urban planner. For several years he has been a member of the Portuguese PEN Club Board, the Portuguese Order of Architects NationalBoard, and the Architects Council of Europe Executive Board. He was 19 years old when he started publishing poems and short stories regularly in several Porto and Lisbon newspapers and magazines, followed by a first book of poems, Encontro (1969). His first novel, O Dedo na Ferida (The Finger on the Spot), published in 2001, won the 2002 Portuguese PEN Club Award for First Novel. In 2008, he published the novel, Os Passos da Glória, selected for the Fernando Namora Award shortlist. In 2020, this novel won a grant from the Portuguese Government for its publication in the USA, under the title, My Art and My Stetson. Read More Read Less