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Mário Cláudio
[Porto, 1941]

Mário Cláudio is the pen name of Rui Manuel Pinto Barbot Costa, who was born in Oporto in 1941. He studied law at Lisbon University and completed the course at Coimbra University. He then took a Master of Arts degree at London University. After his return to Portugal he has worked as an expert in the National Literature Museum and as a university teacher. He won the Portuguese Writers? Association Prize for the Novel in 1984 with his work Amadeo.

He is considered one of the most important Portuguese writers of the last twenty years. Although he has also produced poetry, plays and essays, his principal achievement has been in the novel. Works of fiction: Um Verão Assim (Thus One Summer) 1974, As Máscaras de Sábado (The Masks of Saturday) 1976, Damascena 1983, Amadeo 1984, Guilhermina 1986, Rosa 1988, A Quinta das Virtudes (The House of the Virtues) 1990, Tocata para Dois Clarins (Toccata for Two Bugles) 1992, Trilogia da Mão (The Trilogy of the Hand) 1993, Itinerários (Itineraries), short stories, 1993, As Batalhas do Caia (The Battles of the River Caia) 1995, O Pórtico da Glória (The Gate of Glory) 1997, O Caso Misterioso do Trapezista Azul (The Strange Case of the Blue Trapeze Artist) 1998, Peregrinação de Barnabé das Índias (Peregrination of Barnaby of the Indies) 1998. Poetry: Ciclo de Cipris 1969, Sete Solstícios (Seven Solstices) 1972, A Voz e as Vozes (The Voice and the Voices) 1977, Estâncias (Stanzas) 1980, Terra Sigilata 1982, Dois Equinócios (Two Equinoxes) 1996. Drama: Noites de Anto 1988, A Ilha de Oriente (The Island of East) 1989, Henriqueta Emília da Conceição 1997.

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