Born 1941 · Portugal
APE 2022 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Though I Am an Old Wanderer”
Mário Cláudio · 80 when first published
Novel · 172 pages · Historical
AI-generated summary:Newly found papers about the poet Tiago Veiga, above all the diary his Irish wife Ellen Rassmunsen kept at the Caramulo sanatorium, lead his biographer to write a final account of the man.
APE 2020 · Winner
Title translated by AI:“Triptych of Salvation”
Mário Cláudio · 78 when first published
Novel · 197 pages · Historical, Crime
AI-generated summary:Hans Kunsperger, scribe to an elderly, esteemed lawyer, slowly murders his master to take over his dream of giving a church an altarpiece of Christ's death and resurrection, which leads him to Lucas Cranach's studio.
APE 2015 · Winner
Title translated by AI:“Portrait of a Boy”
Mário Cláudio · 73 when first published
Novella · 139 pages · Historical
AI-generated summary:A father fed up with his wayward son Giacomo leaves the boy at Leonardo da Vinci's workshop, where the painter, struck by his looks, renames him Salai and takes him on as a servant.
APE 2012 · Shortlist
Mário Cláudio · 70 when first published
Novel · 798 pages · Historical
AI-generated summary:The life of the poet Tiago Veiga (1900–1988), a great-grandson of Camilo Castelo Branco who lived and died in rural Alto Minho, told by a biographer who met him.