Alexandre Parafita (natural de Sabrosa, 1956) é um escritor português, com raízes transmontanas, com extensa obra publicada sobre o património e tradição oral portuguesa, bem como no domínio da litera…
The Brazilian author PAULO COELHO was born in 1947 in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Before dedicating his life completely to literature, he worked as theatre director and actor, lyricist and journalist.…
Dan Brown is the author of numerous #1 bestselling novels, including The Da Vinci Code, which has become one of the best selling novels of all time as well as the subject of intellectual debate among …
Stephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. Parts …
Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau) was an American author, naturalist, transcendentalist, tax resister, development critic, philosopher, and abolitionist who is best known for Walden, a re…
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…
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…
Elena Ferrante is a pseudonymous Italian novelist. Ferrante's books, originally published in Italian, have been translated into many languages. Her four-book series of Neapolitan Novels are her most w…
An American poet, psychoanalyst and post-trauma specialist who was raised in now nearly vanished oral and ethnic traditions. She is a first-generation American who grew up in a rural village, populati…
(Ovalle, Chile, 1949 – Oviedo, España, 2020) Luis Sepúlveda was a Chilean writer, film director, journalist and political activist. Exiled during the Pinochet regime, most of his work was written in G…
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…
ALBERTO S. SANTOS é licenciado em Direito, pela Universidade Católica Portuguesa. Foi Presidente da Câmara Municipal de Penafiel (2002-2013), Presidente da Comissão Científica da Rota do Românico/Cent…
Sandra Carvalho is a young writer who has been asserting herself as a creator of compelling high fantasy in Portuguese. The Saga das Pedras Mágicas (Magical Stones Saga) that she has published, awaken…
Isabel Stilwell é jornalista e escritora. Directora do jornal Destak, foi directora, igualmente, da revista Notícias Magazine, tem um longo percurso na imprensa escrita e sempre se confessou apaixonad…
Hiro Arikawa won the tenth annual Dengeki Novel Prize for new writers for Shio no Machi: Wish on My Precious in 2003, and the book was published the following year. It was praised for its love story b…
Born in the sunny lands of Portugal, Diana is a Computer Engineer graduate who currently calls Lisbon home. She can usually be found writing, painting, devouring extraordinary quantities of books and …
«ANA PESSOA Nasceu em Lisboa em 1982 e começou a escrever histórias aos 10 anos. Estudou Línguas e Literaturas Modernas (Estudos Portugueses e Alemães) na Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa.…
José Maria Eça de Queirós was a novelist committed to social reform who introduced naturalism and realism to Portugal. He is often considered to be the greatest Portuguese novelist, certainly the lead…
FILIPA RAIMUNDO nasceu em Lisboa em 1982. É investigadora no Instituto de Ciências Sociais (ICS-UL) e professora auxiliar convidada no Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa (ISCTE-IU…
Márcia Pedroso nasceu em Lisboa, mas é a Alenquer, onde cresceu, que pertence o seu coração. Licenciada em Administração de Publicidade e Marketing no Instituto Politécnico de Portalegre, tem feito o …
