Ken Follett is one of the world’s most successful authors. Over 170 million copies of the 36 books he has written have been sold in over 80 countries and in 33 languages.
J. M. Coetzee is a South African writer, essayist, and translator, widely regarded as one of the most influential authors of contemporary literature. His works, often characterized by their austere pr…
Zygmunt Bauman was a world-renowned Polish sociologist and philosopher, and Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Leeds. He was one of the world's most eminent social theorists, writing…
Arturo Pérez-Reverte Gutiérrez, is a Spanish novelist and ex-journalist. He worked as a war reporter for twenty-one years (1973 - 1994). He started his journalistic career writing for the now-defunct …
Journalist and a biologist, his works in Portuguese have been published in more than 22 countries and have been widely translated. Couto was born António Emílio Leite Couto. He won the 2014 Neustadt In…
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…
Jacques Ferrandez was born in Alger, Algeria, but he and his family settled in Nice, France, when he was only a couple of months old. Algeria has been a recurring theme in his work, though. After a si…
Licenciou-se em Engenharia Químico-Industrial no Instituto Superior Técnico em 1961. Após três anos na Universidade de Oxford, no Reino Unido, doutorou-se em termodinâmica em 1970. No Técnico, foi doc…
FERNANDO NAMORA nasceu a 15 de Abril de 1919, em Condeixa-a-Nova. Licenciado pela Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Coimbra (1942), exerceu clínica na sua terra natal, na Beira Baixa e no Alent…
FREDERICO LOURENÇO nasceu em Lisboa, em 1963. Licenciou-se, em 1988, em Línguas e Literaturas Clássicas na Universidade de Lisboa, onde se viria a doutorar (1999) com a tese Euripidean Lyric: metre an…
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…
Leonardo Padura Fuentes (born 1955) is a Cuban novelist and journalist. As of 2007, he is one of Cuba's best known writers internationally. In English and some other languages, he is often referred to…
Alice Brito nasceu em Setúbal, em 1954, e aí reside até hoje. É advogada, militante política e cronista em alguns periódicos regionais e on-line. Como para uma das personagens do romance As Mulheres d…
Afonso Reis Cabral nasceu em 1990. Aos 15 anos, publicou o livro de poesia Condensação. É licenciado em Estudos Portugueses e Lusófonos pela NOVA FCSH, fez mestrado na mesma área e tem uma pós-graduaç…
Irene Vallejo Moreu (Zaragoza, 1979) estudió Filología Clásica y obtuvo el doctorado europeo por las universidades de Zaragoza y Florencia. En la actualidad lleva a cabo una intensa labor de divulgaci…
