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…
Bernhard Schlink is a German lawyer, academic, and novelist. He is best known for his novel The Reader, which was first published in 1995 and became an international bestseller. He won the 2014 Park K…
Stefan Zweig was one of the world's most famous writers during the 1920s and 1930s, especially in the U.S., South America, and Europe. He produced novels, plays, biographies, and journalist pieces. Am…
At the age of seven, António Lobo Antunes decided to be a writer but when he was 16, his father sent him to medical school - he is a psychiatrist. During this time he never stopped writing. By the end …
Rashid Ismail Khalidi (Arabic: رشيد إسماعيل خالدي; born 18 November 1948) is a Palestinian-American historian of the Middle East and the Edward Said Professor Emeritus of Modern Arab Studies at Columb…
László Krasznahorkai is a Hungarian novelist and screenwriter who is known for critically difficult and demanding novels, often labelled as postmodern, with dystopian and bleak melancholic themes. He …
Michael J. Sandel is an American political philosopher who lives in Brookline, Massachusetts. He is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard University, where he has taught si…
«Camilo Ferreira Botelho Castelo Branco (1825-1890) foi um dos escritores mais prolíferos e marcantes da literatura portuguesa contemporânea tendo sido romancista, cronista, crítico, dramaturgo, histo…
JOSÉ CARDOSO PIRES nasceu na em São João do Peso, concelho de Vila de Rei, distrito de Castelo Branco, a 2 de Outubro de 1925. Estudante na Faculdade de Ciências de Lisboa, trocou as matemáticas super…
Joel Neto é autor dos romances "Arquipélago" (2015), "Os Sítios Sem Resposta" (2013) e "O Terceiro Servo" (2000), para além do volume de contos "O Citroën Que Escrevia Novelas Mexicanas" (2002) e de v…
Margarida Rebelo Pinto licenciou-se em Línguas e Literaturas Modernas na Universidade Clássica de Lisboa e iniciou a actividade de jornalista em várias publicações como: O Independente, Se7e, Marie Cl…
José Maria Ferreira de Castro was a Portuguese writer and journalist. At age 12, he immigrated to Brazil, where his work at a rubber plantation for the following four years would be the inspiration for…
Works, such as the novels The Stranger (1942) and The Plague (1947), of Algerian-born French writer and philosopher Albert Camus concern the absurdity of the human condition; he won the Nobel …
Licenciou-se em Ciências Histórico-Filosóficas na Faculdade de Letras de Coimbra (1947) e foi um dos iniciadores do movimento neo-realista. Colaborou nas revistas Altitude, Seara Nova e Vértice (de qu…
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 …
Aquilino Gomes Ribeiro was a Portuguese writer and diplomat. He is considered as one of the great Portuguese novelists of the 20th century. He was nominated for the Nobel Literature Prize in 1960.
Born in 1962, Inês Pedrosa earned a degree in communication sciences from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa before working in the press, on radio, and on television, earning several journalism awards an…
Dulce Maria Cardoso nasceu em Trás-os-Montes, em 1964, na mesma cama onde haviam nascido a mãe e a avó. Tem pena de não se lembrar da viagem no Vera Cruz para Angola. Da infância guarda a sombra gener…
Raul Germano Brandão (Foz do Douro, March 12, 1867 – Lisbon, December 5, 1930) was a Portuguese writer, journalist and military officer, notable for the realism of his literary descriptions and by the…
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…
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…
Jeferson Tenório was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1977. Based in Porto Alegre, he is a doctoral student in Literary Theory at PUCRS and a lecturer in literature.
Nasceu no Porto em 1997. Licenciada (2019) em Design de Comunicação pela FBAUP e Mestra (2022) em Estudos Literários, Culturais e Interartes pela FLUP. Venceu o Prémio Literário NORTEAR (2018) e em 20…
Nasceu em Sintra. Quando abriu os pulmões, já se respirava em liberdade, mas, para efeitos literários, pode afiançar, sem faltar à verdade, que ainda viveu no tempo da outra senhora. Quando abriu os o…
