António Lobo Antunes (edit name/settings)

Born in Lisbon as the eldest of six sons. At the age of seven, he decided to be a writer but when he was 16, his father sent him to the medical school of the University of Lisbon. He graduated as a medical doctor, later specializing in psychiatry. During this time he never stopped writing. By the end of his education, Lobo Antunes had to serve with the Portuguese Army to take part in the Portuguese Colonial War (1961–1974). In a military hospital in Angola, he became interested in the subjects of death and the other. He came back from Africa in 1973. The Angolan war for independence was the subject of many of his novels. He worked many months in Germany and Belgium.
In 1979, Lobo Antunes published his first novel, Memória de Elefante (Elephant's Memory), in which he told the story of his separation.

His style is considered to be very dense, heavily influenced by William Faulkner and Louis-Ferdinand Céline, and his books also very dense in size.