Afonso Cruz (Figueira da Foz, 1971) is a Portuguese multidisciplinary artist: writer, illustrator, film director, musician. His literary debut in 2008 was the novel The Flesh of God, and in the following decade he published a number of works, among them: The Encyclopedia of the World Story (Camilo Castelo Branco Grand Prize), The Books Which Devoured My Father (Maria Rosa Colaço Literary Prize), Kokoscha’s Doll – the novel for which Cruz was awarded the European Union Prize for Literature in 2012 –, The Painter under the Sink, Jesus Christ Drank Beer (Best Portuguese Novel of the Year/ Time Out Lisbon, and Best Novel 2012 by the readers of the newspaper Público), Where Do Umbrellas End Up (Portuguese Society for Authors Award), Flowers (Fernando Namora Literary Prize), Let’s Buy a Poet, the non-fiction project Jalan Jalan: A Reading of the World, and the novel The Karenina Principle. His books have been translated in well over twenty languages worldwide.