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.…
Sir Terence David John Pratchett was an English author, humorist, and satirist, best known for the Discworld series of 41 comic fantasy novels published between 1983–2015, and for the apocalyptic come…
Jacqueline Harpman was born in Etterbeek, Belgium, in 1929. Being half Jewish, the family moved to Casablanca when the Nazis invaded, and returned home after the war. After studying French literature …
bell hooks (deliberately in lower-case; born Gloria Jean Watkins) was an African-American author, feminist, and social activist. Her writing focused on the interconnectivity of race, class, and gender…
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, often known as Machado de Assis, Machado, or Bruxo do Cosme Velho, (June 21, 1839, Rio de Janeiro—September 29, 1908, Rio de Janeiro) was a Brazilian novelist, poet, pl…
Andrea Rita Dworkin was an American radical feminist and writer best known for her criticism of pornography, which she argued was linked to rape and other forms of violence against women.
Pete Walker is a "general practitioner" who has a private practice in Berkeley, California, in the serene Claremont Hotel neighborhood. He has been working as a counselor, lecturer, writer and group l…
Susan Brownmiller was an American journalist, author and feminist activist best known for her 1975 book Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape, which was selected by The New York Public Library as one…
Gerda Lerner was a historian, author and teacher. She was a professor emeritus of history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a visiting scholar at Duke University.
Conceição Evaristo was born in a slum in the south of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais / Brazil. She had to reconcile her studies with work as a domestic worker, until she completed her first years of stu…
Byung-Chul Han, also spelled Pyŏng-ch'ŏl Han (born 1959 in Seoul), is a German author, cultural theorist, and Professor at the Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK) in Berlin, Germany.
Kathleen Stock is a professor of philosophy at the University of Sussex. She has published on aesthetics, fiction, imagination, and sexual objectification. She is currently the vice-president of the B…
She is a journalist and teacher, holding a master’s degree in Brazilian Literature and a Ph.D. in Literary Studies. She writes for children, young adults, and adults. In 2006, she was the only Brazili…
Raphael Montes, born in 1990 in Rio de Janeiro, is Brazil’s most prominent thriller writer. He is best known for The Secret Dinner, a dark and provocative thriller set in Rio de Janeiro that has sold …
Carla Madeira nasceu em Belo Horizonte. Largou o curso de matemática e se formou em jornalismo e publicidade. Foi professora de redação publicitária na Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais e é diretor…
Aline Bei nasceu em São Paulo, em 1987. É formada em Letras pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo e em Artes Cênicas pelo Teatro Escola Célia-Helena. É editora e colunista do site cultura…
Vencedor de prêmios no Brasil e no exterior, além de ser o primeiro brasileiro finalista do prestigiado International Booker Prize, ITAMAR VIEIRA JUNIOR nasceu em Salvador (1979) e é autor da coletânea …
Caroline Criado Pérez is a best-selling and award-winning writer, broadcaster and feminist campaigner. She is published across the major national media, and appears in both print and broadcast as a co…
Psicanalista, escritora, professora, psicóloga graduada e pós-graduada pela Pucpr. Doutora em pesquisa e clínica em psicanálise pela Uerj. Mestre em Psicologia Clínica pela Ufpr.
