Bruno Vieira Amaral was born in 1978. He collaborates with the magazine Ler, the newspaper Expresso, and Rádio Observador. He debuted with the essay Guia para 50 Personagens da Ficção Portuguesa [Guide to 50 Characters in Portuguese Fiction] in 2013, published by Guerra e Paz. His first novel, As Primeiras Coisas (Quetzal, 2013), was awarded the PEN Club Narrative Prize, the Fernando Namora Literary Prize, the Time Out Prize, and the José Saramago Literary Prize in 2015. In 2016, he was named one of the Ten New Voices from Europe by the Literature Across Frontiers platform. His second novel, Hoje Estarás Comigo no Paraíso (Quetzal, 2017), received the 2016-2017 Tabula Rasa Prize in the Fiction category, and second place in the 2018 Oceanos Prize. In 2018, his best scattered texts were collected in the volume Manobras de Guerrilha, and in 2020 he published the short story collection Uma Ida ao Motel, which won the Camilo Castelo Branco/APE Grand Prize for Short Stories the following year. In 2021, Integrado Marginal, a biography of the writer José Cardoso Pires, was published. A year later, he compiled a collection of chronicles about the past and memory in O Segundo Coração. In 2024, he published his third novel, Todo Mundo Tem um Plano. The rights to his books have been sold to several countries, including Spain, Italy, Brazil, Hungary, Egypt, and Israel. Alongside his literary work, he translated books by authors such as David Foster Wallace (String Theory), James Wood (The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief), Geoff Dyer (But Beautiful, The Last Days of Roger Federer), Yuval Noah Harari (Homo Deus), Johnny Pitts (Afropean), Reza Aslan (Zealot), Neil Gaiman (The Ocean at the End of the Lane), Tom Nichols (The Death of Expertise), and Matthew Williams (The Science of Hate).
