Gonçalo M. Tavares

Tavares published a great variety of books since 2001 and has been awarded several national and international literary prizes.

"[3] Tavares is the author of a large body of work that has been translated in countries such as India, Japan, Sweden, Denmark, China, Cuba, South Africa, Indonesia, Iceland, Turkey, Palestine, Iraq, Egypt, Moldova, Estonia, Israel, Venezuela and the United States, in a total of seventy countries.

[citation needed] The New Yorker said that, like Kafka and Beckett, Tavares showed that "logic can effectively serve madness as well as reason".

[4] Tavares' language breaks with Portuguese lyrical traditions and his subversion of literary genres is innovative.

Recently, Tavares' Le Quartier (The Quarter) received the prestigious Prix Laure-Bataillon 2021, awarded to the best book translated in France, succeeding Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk, who received this prize in 2019, and Catalan writer Miquel de Palol.