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Portuguese writer, whose real name is Rui Manuel Pinto Barbot Costa, born on November 6, 1941, in Porto. He graduated in Law from the University of Coimbra, where he also earned a diploma as a librarian and archivist. Master of Arts Holding a degree in Library and Information Science from University College London, he revealed himself as a poet with the volume Cypris Cycle (1969). Translator of authors such as William Beckford, Odysseus Elytis, Nikos Gatsos and Virginia Woolf, it was, however, as a fiction writer that he made his name.
He published under his own name, since "Mário Cláudio" is a pseudonym, a Study of Illiteracy in Portugal, a work that brings together his master's thesis and a paper presented at the 6th Meeting of Portuguese Librarians, Archivists and Documentalists in 1978. Contributor to several periodical publications, such as Loreto 13, Colloquium/Letters, Lisbon Daily, Vertex, Journal of Letters, Arts and Ideas, The NewspaperAmong other things, he has been considered by critics, since the publication of works such as A Summer Like ThisMário Cláudio is an author for whom verse and prose are interchangeable forms, sharing common characteristics such as opacity, musicality, and syntactic rupture, subverting the linearity of reading through writing constructed as a "spiral labyrinth." His work reveals a facet of researcher and bibliophile that, finding continuity in his professional activity, eruditely inscribes each book within a Portuguese or universal cultural and literary heritage. It seems that his writing, whether novels or collections of short narratives (Itinerários, 1993), functions as a mirror that reflects back to each period its image, glimpsed through a face or a place, in which the author himself is reflected, and this without concern for any kind of realism, but in a diffuse and composite whole, capable of evoking the sense or tone of an era that still contributes to shaping the present era.
In 1985, Mário Cláudio received the Grand Prize for Fiction from the Portuguese Writers' Association for... Amadeo (1984), the first novel in a series later titled Hand Trilogy (1993), in 2001 he received the novel award from the same association for the book The City in Your Pocket and, in December 2004, he was honored with the Pessoa Prize. In addition to the works already mentioned, he is also the author of... Guilhermina (1986), The Farm of Virtues, (1991), Toccata for Two Trumpets (1992), The Portico of Glory (1997), Pilgrimage of Barnabas of the Indies (1998), Big Dipper (2000), Orion (2003), Amadeu (2003), Twins (2004) and Triumph of Portuguese Love (2004). The author also has published works in the field of poetry (such as Cypris Cycle, 1969, Terra Sigillata, from 1982, and Two Equinoxes, of 1996), of the essays (For the Study of Literacy and Reluctance to Read in Portugal, from 1979, among others), of the theater (for example, The Strange Case of the Blue Trapeze Artist, from 1999) and children's literature (The Witch, the Poet, and the Angel, of 1996).