José Eduardo Agualusa, author, journalist, and playwright, was born in Huambo, Angola. He won the Independent Foreign Fiction in 2007 for his novel The Book of Chameleons, the story of a man who sells pasts, and an exploration of the enigma of human memory. He is the author of a number of other books which have been translated into many European languages: Nação Crioula has been published in English as Creole (2002).  He has also written a play for theatre entitled W Generation. As the recipient of various grants from Portuguese and German foundations he has been resident in Goa and in Berlin, and otherwise divides his time between Portugal, Angola and Brazil. In 2006 he set up the Brazilian publishing house Língua Geral, which publishes books originally written in Portuguese.
His upcoming novel My Father’s Wives is to be published in June by Arcadia.
 

More information: Agualusa's official website