António Mota was born in Vilarelho, Ovil, in Baião. He was a middle school teacher and published his first children’s book “A Aldeia das Flores” in 1979, never stopping to write from this point onwards. He has already received many prestigious awards for his stories, many of them based on history: “O rapaz de Lourdes” (1983) was awarded by the Portuguese Association of Writers, in 1990 his novel “Pedro Alecrim” was awarded the “Gulbenkian Award for Children and Young Adults Literature”
and in 1996 “A Casa das Bengalas” received the Award “António Botto”.
