GONÇALO M. TAVARES (Luanda, 1970) has been published in almost fifty countries and has been awarded an impressive amount of national and international literary prizes. Jerusalem received the Prêmio Portugal Telecom de Literatura em Língua Portuguesa and the LER / Millenium Prize. Learning to Pray in the Age of Technique was awarded the Best Foreign Book 2010 in France. He also received the Grande Prêmio da Associação Portuguesa de Escritores. In Reading is Walking (The Encyclopedia Series), Tavares reflects, with his already- distinctive style, on the topicsof Science, Fear, Connections, Music and Bloom-Literature. Beside his work as a writer, the author teaches Epistemology at the University of Lisbon.