Bruno Vieira Amaral

Bruno Vieira Amaral was born in 1978. He contributes to Rádio Observador and is a columnist for Tribuna Expresso. He made his debut with the essay Guia para 50 Personagens da Ficção Portuguesa, published by Guerra e Paz in 2013. His first novel, As Primeiras Coisas (Quetzal, 2013), received the Prémio PEN Clube Narrativa, Prémio Literário Fernando Namora, Prémio Time Out and Prémio Literário José Saramago, in 2015. In 2016, he was named one of the Ten New Voices from Europe, selected by the Literature Across Frontiers platform.

His second novel, Hoje Estarás Comigo no Paraíso (Quetzal, 2017), received the prémio Tabula Rasa 2016-2017 in the Fiction category and second place in the Prémio Oceanos 2018. In 2018, his best pieces from various publications were collected in the volume Manobras de Guerrilha, and in 2020 he published the short-story collection Uma Ida ao Motel, which won the Grande Prémio de Conto Camilo Castelo Branco / APE the following year. In 2021, Integrado Marginal, a biography of the writer José Cardoso Pires, was published. A year later, he brought together a collection of columns about the past and memory in O Segundo Coração. In 2024, he published his third novel, Toda a Gente Tem um Plano. The rights to his books have been sold to several countries, including Espanha, Itália, Brasil, Hungria, Egito and Israel.