Torkel Klingberg
Torkel Klingberg is an exciting author who takes the reader...
one of Portugal's most acclaimed and bestselling young novelists.
He is three-times a winner of the Jovens Criadores Prize, and in 2001 he won the José Saramago Prize with his novel BLANK GAZE (or THE IMPLACABLE ORDER OF THINGS). He is the author of several works of fiction and poetry, and is praised around the world for his fresh, unique and moving style of storytelling. BLANK GAZE was selected by The Financial Times as one of their best books of 2007. THE PIANO CEMETERY followed in English at the end of 2010, and LIVRO, which went immediately to the top of the bestseller lists in Portugal upon publication in September 2010, is currently in translation. Peixoto also teaches languages and contemporary literature and is a journalist and literary critic.
Fiction:
2000 - Morreste-me (fiction, narrative)
2000 - Nenhum Olhar (novel)
2002 - Uma Casa na Escuridão (novel)
2003 - Antidoto (fiction, narrative)
2006 - Cemitério de Pianos (novel)
2008 - Cal (fiction, narrative)
2010 - Livro (novel)
2011 - Abraço (memoir, narrative)
Poetry:
2001 - A Criança em Ruínas
2002 - A Casa, a Escuridão
2008 - Gaveta de Papéis
Plays:
2005 - Anathema
2005 - À Manhã
2007 - "Quando o Inverno Chegar"
Torkel Klingberg is an exciting author who takes the reader...
is the #1 bestselling author of The Christmas Box. Each of...