Stephen William Hawking was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge. Between 1979 …
Award-winning author Neal Shusterman grew up in Brooklyn, New York, where he began writing at an early age. After spending his junior and senior years of high school at the American School of Mexico C…
Miguel Sousa Tavares is a portuguese journalist and was born in Porto, on the 25th June 1952. His mother, Sophia de Mello Breyner, was a poetess and his father, Francisco de Sousa Tavares, a lawyer an…
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…
George Raymond Richard "R.R." Martin was born September 20, 1948, in Bayonne, New Jersey. His father was Raymond Collins Martin, a longshoreman, and his mother was Margaret Brady Martin. He has two si…
VERGÍLIO FERREIRA nasceu em Gouveia, a 28 de Janeiro de 1916. Seminarista no Fundão, licenciou-se depois em Filologia Clássica na Universidade de Coimbra e foi prof. liceal em Faro, Bragança, Évora e …
Né en 1970, François Baranger est un artiste aux multiples talents. Illustrateur pour le cinéma (Harry Potter 7 ou encore La Belle et la Bête de Christophe Gans), réalisateur de quelques courts-métrag…
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…
Samantha Harvey has completed postgraduate courses in philosophy and in Creative Writing. In addition to writing, she has traveled extensively and taught in Japan and has lived in Ireland and New Zeal…
Sarah J. Maas is the #1 bestselling author of the Throne of Glass, Court of Thorns and Roses, and Crescent City series. Her books have sold millions of copies and are published in thirty-eight languag…
Isabela Figueiredo nasceu em Lourenço Marques, Moçambique, hoje Maputo, em 1963. Após a independência de Moçambique, em 1975, rumou a Portugal, incorporando o contingente de retornados. Foi jornalista…
In this poignant, hilarious, and deeply intimate call to arms, Hollywood’s most powerful woman, the mega-talented creator of Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal and executive producer of How to Get Away with M…
Sándor Márai (originally Sándor Károly Henrik Grosschmied de Mára) was a Hungarian writer and journalist. He was born in the city of Kassa in Austria-Hungary (now Košice in Slovakia) to an old family o…
Hugo Gonçalves (1976) é autor de vários romances. Na Companhia das Letras, estão publicados "Filho do pai", "Revolução" (vencedor do Prémio Fernando Namora e semifinalista do Prémio Oceanos), "Deus Pá…
八木沢 里志 (Satoshi Yagisawa) was born in Chiba, Japan, in 1977. Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, his debut novel, was originally published in 2009 and won the Chiyoda Literature Prize.
Ashley Herring Blake is a reader, writer, and mom to two boisterous boys. She holds a Master’s degree in teaching and loves coffee, arranging her books by color, and cold weather. She is the author of…
Autor de: "Zalatune" (Manuscrito, 2021) "O Homem Domesticado" (Casa das Letras, 2017) "O Dia em Que o Sol Se Apagou" (Casa das Letras, 2015): finalista do Prémio Leya "O Soldado Sabino" (Visgarolho Editor…
Lize Meddings is the creator of the Sad Ghost Club, a club for anyone who’s ever felt sad or lost. The Sad Ghost Club community has over half a million followers on instragram. Lize loves drawing, esp…
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…
