Vasco Gato was born in Lisbon in 1978, where he currently lives and works as a translator. After studying Economics and Philosophy, he became a professional translator through his own artistic work as a poet. Since 2000, Vasco Gato has published fifteen books of poetry, a play and two anthologies of poetry personally selected by him and translated into Portuguese. He has also translated several novels from English, Spanish and Italian into Portuguese by authors such as Anthony Burgess , Charles Bukowski, F. Scott Fitzgerald , Iris Murdoch, Juan Gabriel Vásquez , Manuel Vilas , Mario Vargas Llosa , Domenico Starnone, Italo Svevo and Roberto Saviano.