José Luís Peixoto

José Luís Peixoto (born 4 September 1974, in Galveias, Portalegre, Portugal), is a Portuguese writer.
His novels that are in English are "Blank Gaze" (UK title)/"The Implacable Order of Things" (US title) and "The Piano Cemetery".
His works have been published in France, Italy, Greece, Bulgaria, Turkey, Finland, Holland, Spain (Spanish and Catalan), Czech Republic, Croatia, Belarus, Brazil, United States, United Kingdom, and Hungary. His novels have been translated in a total of 20 languages. 
Peixoto graduated from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa.