Author of the novels «Archipelago” and "Meridian 28», as well as the diaries «Life in the Countryside», which earned him the APE Grand Prize. He was born on Terceira Island, spent 20 years in Lisbon – where he wrote for almost all the major national newspapers – and returned to the Azores in 2012. Since then, he has been living in Dois Caminhos, where he takes care of his two dogs, a garden and an orchard. He is the author, among others, of the column «Father at 50» (Notícias Magazine).