Atul Atmaram Gawande is an American surgeon, writer, and public health researcher. He practices general and endocrine surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. He is a professo…
Haruki Murakami (村上春樹) is a Japanese writer. His novels, essays, and short stories have been best-sellers in Japan and internationally, with his work translated into 50 languages and having sold milli…
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890…
Stephen John Fry is an English comedian, writer, actor, humourist, novelist, poet, columnist, filmmaker, television personality and technophile. As one half of the Fry and Laurie double act with his c…
Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. García Márquez, familiarly known as "Gabo" in his native country, was considere…
Daniel Silva was born in Michigan in 1960 and raised in California where he received his BA from Fresno State. Silva began his writing career as a journalist for United Press International (UPI), trav…
Yukio Mishima (三島 由紀夫) was born in Tokyo in 1925. He graduated from Tokyo Imperial University’s School of Jurisprudence in 1947. His first published book, The Forest in Full Bloom, appeared in 1944 an…
Jo Nesbø is a bestselling Norwegian author and musician. He was born in Oslo and grew up in Molde. Nesbø graduated from the Norwegian School of Economics with a degree in economics. Nesbø is primarily…
LÍDIA GUERREIRO JORGE nasceu em Boliqueime, Loulé a 18 de Junho de 1946. Concluído o curso de Filologia Românica, dedicou-se ao ensino liceal (Angola, Moçambique e Lisboa). Publicou os romances O Dia …
José de Sousa Saramago (16 November 1922 – 18 June 2010) was a Portuguese novelist and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony…
Lars Kepler is the pseudonym of critically acclaimed husband and wife team Alexander Ahndoril and Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril, authors of the No. 1 internationally bestselling Joona Linna series. With s…
Nasceu em Lisboa em 1982. É licenciada em Design de Comunicação pelas Belas-Artes de Lisboa e doutorada em Estudos Culturais pela European University Viadrina, na Alemanha. Em paralelo à criação liter…
JOSÉ MANUEL MILHAZES PINTO nasceu a 2 de Outubro de 1958 na Póvoa de Varzim. Licenciado em História da Rússia (1984) e Mestre em Ciências Históricas pela Universidade Estatal de Moscovo (Lomonossov) e…
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Laura Jane Williams (she/her) is known as the queen of the meet-cute. She is the author of six rom-coms, as well as the forthcoming Lovestruck (June 2023). She is also the author of three works of non…
Amanda Lovelace is a bestselling American poet who rose to fame through her poetry posted to Tumblr and Instagram. She is the author of the women are some kind of magic series, including the Goodreads…
Helena Magalhães nasceu em 1985 em Lisboa e tem-se dedicado ao jornalismo e à escrita. Começou pela imprensa feminina, passou para o digital e encontrou o seu lugar na literatura. Em 2017 lançou o seu…
Maria Francisca Gama nasceu em Leiria em 1997. Aos 17 anos, mudou-se para Lisboa e formou-se em Direito, pela Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa. Trabalhou num escritório de advogados e, mai…
Maria Isaac é natural das Terras de Antuã, no norte de Portugal. Autora de “Onde Cantam os Grilos” (2017), finalista do Prémio Fundação Eça de Queiroz, que inicia a série Odisseia das Pequenas Coisas,…
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE grew up in Nigeria. Her work has been translated into more than fifty-five languages. She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus, which won the Commonwealth Writers' Priz…
