José Luís Peixoto (born 4 September 1974,éLuí in Galveias, Portalegre, Portugal), is a Portuguese writer. His novels that are in English are Blank Gaze (UK title)/The Implacable Order of Things (US title) and The Piano Cemetery.
His works have been published in France, Italy, Greece, Bulgaria, Turkey, Finland, Holland, Spain (Spanish and Catalan), Czech Republic, Croatia, Belarus, Brazil, United States, United Kingdom, and Hungary. His novels have been translated in a total of 20 languages.
Peixoto graduated from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
Published works
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"
Columns
Writes a regular column in the Portuguese cultural newspaper "Jornal de Letras" and in the Portuguese weekly magazine Visão.
Lyrics
Wrote lyrics for Da Weasel, Mísia, A Naifa, Joana Amendoeira and Quinta do Bill.
Literary Prizes
Prémio Jovens Criadores, Instituto Português da Juventude in 1997, 1998 and 2000
Prémio José Saramago, from "Fundação Círculo de Leitores", 2001. Prémio de Poesia Daniel Faria, 2008 Prémio Cálamo Outra Mirada, 2008 (Spain) Prémio Libro d'Europa, 2013 (Italy)