Sylvia Plath was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer, widely regarded as one of the most influential and emotionally powerful authors of the 20th century. Born in Boston, Massachusetts,…
Emily Dickinson was an American poet who, despite the fact that less than a dozen of her nearly eighteen hundred poems were published during her lifetime, is widely considered one of the most original…
The author of some twenty works of fiction and memoir, Annie Ernaux is considered by many to be France’s most important writer. In 2022, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She has also won…
Esther 'Etty' Hillesum was a young Jewish woman whose letters and diaries, kept between 1941 and 1943 describe life in Amsterdam during the German occupation. They were published posthumously in 1981,…
محمود درويش Mahmoud Darwish was a respected Palestinian poet and author who won numerous awards for his literary output and was regarded as the Palestinian national poet. In his work, Palestine became…
Clarice Lispector was a Brazilian writer. Acclaimed internationally for her innovative novels and short stories, she was also a journalist. Born to a Jewish family in Podolia in Western Ukraine, she w…
Born in Buenos Aires to Russian parents who had fled Europe and the Nazi Holocaust, Alejandra Pizarnik was destined for literary greatness as well as an early death. She died from an ostensibly self-a…
Jorge de Sena is one of the most important Portuguese poets of the second half of the 20th century, but he was also an outstanding essayist, a fiction writer of indubitable talent, a significant playw…
Enzo Traverso is an Italian scholar of European intellectual history. He is the author of several books on critical theory, the Holocaust, Marxism, memory, totalitarianism, revolution, and contemporar…
Miguel Torga, pseudonym of Adolfo Correia da Rocha was one of the greatest Portuguese writers of the 20th century. He wrote poetry, short stories, theater and a 16 volume diary.
Claude Cahun was a French artist, photographer and writer. Her work was both political and personal, and often played with the concepts of gender and sexuality. She began making photographic self-port…
Mark Fisher (1968 – 2017) was a co-founder of Zero Books and Repeater Books. His blog, k-punk, defined critical writing for a generation. He wrote three books, Capitalist Realism, Ghosts of My Life an…
Manoel Wenceslau Leite de Barros is a Brazilian poet. He has won many awards for his work, including twice the Prêmio Jabuti, the most important literary award in Brazil. Today he is renowned by his c…
MARIA JUDITE DE CARVALHO nasceu em Lisboa a 18 de Setembro de 1921. Estreou-se com o livro de contos Tanta Gente, Mariana (1959) e foi galardoada com o Prémio Camilo Castelo Branco pela colectânea As …
ANA LUÍSA AMARAL nasceu em Lisboa, a 5 de Abril de 1956. Doutorada em Literatura Norte-Americana com uma tese sobre Emily Dickinson, ensinou Literatura Inglesa no Departamento de Estudos Anglo-America…
MARIA DO ROSÁRIO PEDREIRA nasceu em Lisboa, em 1959. Licenciou-se em Línguas e Literaturas Modernas, na variante de Estudos Franceses e Ingleses, pela Faculdade de Letras da Universidade Clássica de L…
Nasceu em 1971, na Figueira da Foz e estudou nas Belas Artes de Lisboa, no Instituto Superior de Artes Plásticas da Madeira e na António Arroio. É escritor, músico, cineasta e ilustrador. Escreveu seis…
"Adília Lopes da Silva and Maria José de Oliveira Viana Fidalgo are one and the same person. They are me. As poppy is a poppy. And many other names that I don’t know. Adília Lopes is water in gaseous …
Uma definição. Sou coisa de difícil explicação! O que consigo explicar: Transmontana. Economista, pós-graduada em Direito Penal Económico e Direito Administrativo. Tenho dois gatos. Pratico SwáSthya Yôga. Já…
Cláudia R. Sampaio é uma poeta e artista plástica nascida em Lisboa (1981). Estudou escrita de argumento na escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema, escreveu para cinema, televisão e teatro. Publicou os li…
Matilde Campilho nasceu em Lisboa em 1982. No ano de 2010 foi viver para o Brasil, e desde então mora entre o Rio de Janeiro e Lisboa. Publicou poemas nos jornais brasileiros A Folha de São Paulo e O …
Andreia C. Faria nasceu no Porto, em 1984. Publicou em 2008 o seu primeiro livro de poemas, De haver relento (Cosmorama Edições). Seguiram-se Flúor (Textura Edições, 2013), Um pouco acima do lugar ond…
