Born in Moura, Beja, on March 5, 1936, Mário Zambujal was a sports journalist at RTP, in the newspaper To Ballsub-director do Recordhaving been editor-in-chief of The Century and Diário de Notícias and director of the newspaper Se7e and the weekly Tal & Qual, having been a columnist for the daily 24 Hours. It also appeared on the radio, with emphasis on the program Bread with Butterfrom Rádio Comercial.
At the age of 15, he published his first story in the weekly The Ridiculous, but the literary debut came in 1980 with Chronicle of the Good Rascalswhich was later adapted for film by Fernando Lopes. The work would also give rise to a television series directed by Jorge Paixão da Costa.
Three years after publishing Chronicle of the Good RascalsMário Zambujal launched Stories from the End of the Street and, in 1986, At Night Soon. He signed many more works such as Out of Hand, a collection of short stories and chronicles, First the ladies, A Night Is Not Days, Lady of Swords, Far Is a Good Place, Cafuné, The Hidden Diary of Nora Ruth, Serpentine, Talisman, Romão and Juliana, Love Letters Are No Longer Written, So, good night, Spin, Fabiolo and Piroueta.
In 2025, his most recent book was published, entitled The Last One to Leave, and that same year he received the Gazeta Merit Award, granted by the Journalists Club, in recognition of his “long journalistic career, which began in the 1960s”.
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