The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon

About the Author

Richard Zimler, born in 1956 in New York, has lived since 1990 in Portugal, where he is a professor of journalism at the University of Porto. His short fiction, which has appeared in Britain in London Magazine and in America in The James White Review, won the 1994 Panurge Prize and has since been anthologized in the Book of Eros and Men on Men: 6. He has also won a fellowship in fiction from the US National Endowment for the Arts. Unholy Ghosts, his second novel, was recently published. His most recent novel, The Angelic Darkness, is also published by Arcadia.