Tríptico da Salvação

Mário Cláudio was born in Porto. A fiction writer, poet, playwright, and essayist, he holds a degree in Law from the University of Coimbra and a diploma in Library and Archiving from the Faculty of Arts of the same University. Master of Arts in Library and Information Science from the University of London.
He is the author of a vast and multifaceted body of work encompassing fiction, chronicles, poetry, drama, essays, children's and young adult literature, and has been translated into several languages. He has been awarded, among others, the Grand Prize for Fiction from the Portuguese Writers' Association (DGLAB) (awarded three times), the PEN Club Prize, the Eça de Queiroz Prize, the Vergílio Ferreira Prize, the Fernando Namora Literary Prize, and the Pessoa Prize, and also holds several national and international decorations. In 2019 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto, and the Portuguese Society of Authors recently nominated him for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
His fictional work, often composed of trilogies, includes titles such as Amadeo, Guilhermina, Rose, Twins, Camilo Broca, Tiago Veiga: A Biography, Portrait of a Boy, Astronomy, Triptych of Salvation, Cloud Theory and Uncontinuous Diary.