Mario de Carvalho was born in Lisbon, Portugal, 1944. He was part of the movement against the dictator Salazar. As a resistant he had an adventurous youth. While in the army, he was jailed, tortured and eventually escaped to Sweden. After the democratic Revolution, in 1974, he returned to Portugal and praticised law for many years.In 1981 he published his first book of novels and initialized a successfull writing carreer. He has published numerous novels, story collections and plays and has been widely translated. A God Strolling in the Cool of the Evening («Um Deus Passeando Pela Brisa da Tarde») was the winner of 1996 Pegasus Prize for Literature and is translated in English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Greek and Bulgarian. The novel, an historical timeless tale on human nature, had excelente reviews, and is considered a classic in the gender.