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Rui Zink
Rui Zink
Rui Zink was born in Lisbon in 1961. He holds a PhD in Portuguese Studies from the New University of Lisbon, where he co-ordinates and teaches post-graduate studies in Text Publishing.
His literary activity is wide-ranging. He combines his writing with enlightened and attentive civic intervention. He was one of the first Portuguese writers to give creative writing workshops. As well as writing fiction, plays and comic book scripts, he has written a libretto (for the opera Os fugitivos, 2004) and has translated others, including Saul Bellow.
He is regularly invited to work with the press and television, and was a visiting professor of Portuguese Literature in the United States (University of Michigan). Since the publication of his first book, Hotel lusitano [Lusitanian hotel], in 1987, he has accumulated a large body of work. Dádiva divina [Divine gift] won the Portuguese Pen Club Prize in 2004, while his story O bicho da escrita (The writing bug) was
shortlisted for the Pushcart Prize. He has been translated into German, Hebrew, English, Italian, Romanian and Japanese.