Portuguese writer (1880-1945).
Born July 8th, 1880 in Lisbon.
Died March 22nd, 1945 at 64 years old in Lisbon.
Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is just a passing shadow of a cloud. Yann Martel