He was born in Lisbon in 1975. He won the José Saramago Literary Prize in 2009 with «The Three Lives» and was a finalist in the Portugal Telecom Prize in 2011 with the same book. He has published twelve novels. He was a finalist in the Best Narrative Fiction Prize from the Portuguese Society of Authors (2011 and 2015), the Fernando Namora Literary Prize (2011, 2012, 2015, 2016), and the European Literary Prize in 2012. His books are published in several countries.