Paulo José Miranda is a Portuguese writer and poet. He has a Graduate degree in philosophy from Universidade de Lisboa. He is a Pen Club member since 1998. He has published three poetry books, four novels and one theater play. His first poetry book won the Teixeira de Pascoaes Prize in 1997 and his second novel won the first José Saramago Prize in 1999. He won Fellowships from the Portuguese Ministry of Culture to write his third novel and from Orient Foundation to live in Macau for three months and to write his fourth novel. His latest work is America: a text on America in 99 points (he has two new novels comming out soon).