Portugal

We are happy to introduce the following jury members for Portugal: José Manuel Lello, administrator at Livraria Lello and Lello Editores - President of the jury José Jorge Letria, poet, writer, playwright, journalist, president of the Portuguese Society of Authors João de Melo, writer, former teacher and diplomat Isabel Lucas, journalist and literary critic David Machado, writer, EUPL 2015 laureate    

Afonso Cruz

Born in 1971 in Figueira da Foz, years later he would visit more than 60 countries. In 2008, he published his first novel, The Flesh of God: The Adventures of Conrado Fortes and Lola Benites, and a year later The Encyclopedia of World Story, which won the Camilo Castelo Branco Grand Prize. In 2011, he released The Books Which Devoured My Father (Maria Rosa Colaço Literary Prize) and The Human Contradiction (SPA/RTP Authors Award).

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