Nuno Camarneiro (born 17 August 1977) is a Portuguese

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Biography

Nuno Camarneiro was born in

Figueira da Foz Figueira da Foz (), officially Figueira da Foz City (), often called simply Figueira for short, is a city and a municipality in the Coimbra District, in Portugal. Practically at the midpoint of the Iberian Peninsula's Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic coa ...

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, in 1977. He holds a degree in Physics Engineering by the

University of Coimbra The University of Coimbra (UC; , ) is a Public university, public research university in Coimbra, Portugal. First established in Lisbon in 1290, it went through a number of relocations until moving permanently to Coimbra in 1537. The university ...

, worked at

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and got his Ph.D. by the

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. He teaches at the Portucalense University at

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. In 2011 he published his first novel "No Meu Peito Não Cabem Pássaros" and, in 2013, "Debaixo de Algum Céu", which won the Prémio Leya.

Works

* ''No Meu Peito Não Cabem Pássaros'' (Dom Quixote), Junho de 2011 * ''Debaixo de Algum Céu'' (LeYa), Abril 2013

References

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External links

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