Jacinto Lucas Pires

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Jacinto Lucas Pires was born in Porto in 1974 and lives in Lisbon. He is a writer and a playwright. His new novel is due out in May. The True Actor (published in the US by Dzanc, translation by Jaime Braz and Dean Thomas Ellis) won the 2013 Domingos da Silva Teixeira Distinguished Literature Award for the best book published in Portugal in the past two years. Oração a que Faltam Joelhos [Prayer Lacking Any Knees] won the John Dos Passos Award in 2021. Lucas Pires also won the prestigious Prémio Europa/David Mourão-Ferreira (Bari University, Italy/Instituto Camões, Portugal) in 2008. Jacinto Lucas Pires has written six novels, three story collections, three non-fiction books and four picture books with different illustration artists. He has written several theater plays, staged by different groups. Jacinto Manupela is his musical alter ego (on Spotify, Apple Music, etc.). And he has a Substack newsletter, Pardon my English.     Photo by Paulo Goulert