The author of some forty books of poetry, fiction and essays, A. M. Pires Cabral was born in 1941, in a village of northeastern Portugal, and took a degree in English and German. Unlike many Portuguese writers, who left the interior of the country for the urban centers along the coast, Pires Cabral remained in the region where he was born and raised, working there today as an administrator in the area of culture. The human reality of the rural northeast is very much present in his novels and short stories, as well as in some of his poetry, which at the same time could not be farther removed from the stereotypes of regionalist literature. The dominant theme of his most recent verse collections is a universal one: the lamentable inevitability of death.
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