11.22.13 at the Gallery at Avalon Island
Reading from: The True Actor
Jacinto Lucas Pires was born in Porto in 1974 and now lives in Lisbon. He is a writer, playwright, director, musician, and soccer aficionado. His latest novel, The True Actor, won the 2013 Distinguished Literature Award of the DST (Domingos da Silva Teixeira) organization for the best book published in Portugal in the past two years. Pires won the prestigious Prémio Europa–David Mourão-Ferreira (Bari University, Italy/Instituto Camões, Portugal) in 2008. He plays with the band Os Quais, and his soccer column appears in Jornal de Notícias. Several translations of his short prose recently appeared in an issue of The St. Petersburg Review translated by Jaime Braz and Dean Thomas Ellis.