Adolfo Coelho
Francisco Adolfo Coelho (Coimbra, 15 de Janeiro de 1847 — Carcavelos, 9 de Fevereiro de 1919) foi um pedagogo e pedagogista, filólogo e escritor português. autodidacta, que foi uma das figuras mais importantes da intelectualidade portuguesa dos finais do século XIX.
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Nasceu em Lisboa a 20 de junho de 1921 e faleceu na mesma cidade no dia 6 de julho de 2010. Licenciou-se em Filologia Românica pela Faculdade de Letra da Universidade Clássica de Lisboa. Foi professora do Ensino Técnico Profissional em Lisboa e noutras cidades do País, assim como professora do primeiro Curso de Literatura para a Infância, que teve lugar na Escola do Magistério Primário de Lisboa. Autora de livros de contos e poesia para o mundo adulto e de mais de duas dezenas de livros de contos e poesia para crianças, dedicou aos problemas da criança e à defesa dos seus direitos. São de sua autoria alguns volumes sobre a importância da infância na criação literária para adultos e sobre a importância da Literatura Infanto-Juvenil na formaç
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Guerra Junqueiro
Ana Maria Guerra bore Abílio Manuel Guerra Junqueiro to José António Junqueiro Júnior, a supply trader and farmer. Ana died when Abilio was only three years old.
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He made secondary studies in Bragança and at sixteen, he enrolled at the University of Coimbra, to study theology. Two years later, he left to study law, that he concluded in 1873. Then he became secretary of the governor of Angra do Heroísmo, Azores, and later of Viana do Castelo. In 1878, he was elected to the House of Representatives.
In 1885, he at Porto published A velhice do Padre Eterno , which generated strong criticism from Portuguese Catholic Church. After the British Ultimatum and the political crisis associated, he was involved in the political debate in 1891, writing -
Sidónio Muralha
Sidónio Muralha nasceu na Madragoa, Lisboa, a 28 de julho de 1920, e faleceu em Curitiba, Paraná, Brasil, a 8 de dezembro de 1982. É um escritor que se insere na corrente neo-realista. Esteve no Congo Belga, partindo em 1962 para o Brasil. A sua primeira obra, Beco (1941), é considerada uma das precursos do Neo-realismo em Portugal. Dedicou-se à literatura infantil, publicando 15 títulos para crianças.
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Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen (often referred to in Scandinavia as H.C. Andersen) was a Danish author and poet. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, Andersen is best remembered for his fairy tales. Andersen's popularity is not limited to children; his stories — called eventyr, or "fairy-tales" — express themes that transcend age and nationality.
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Andersen's fairy tales, which have been translated into more than 125 languages, have become culturally embedded in the West's collective consciousness, readily accessible to children, but presenting lessons of virtue and resilience in the face of adversity for mature readers as well. Some of his most famous fairy tales include "The Little Mermaid", "The Ugly Duckling", "The -
Virginia Woolf
(Adeline) Virginia Woolf was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century.
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During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929) with its famous dictum, "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." -
Carlo Collodi
Carlo Lorenzini, better known by the pen name Carlo Collodi, was an Italian children's writer known for the world-renowned fairy tale novel, The Adventures of Pinocchio.
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Andy Lee
Andy Lee’s a comedian, musician, and TV presenter, who became an award winning children’s books’ author by accident. The first book in this series was only ever meant to have one copy. Andy wrote it as a surprise for his sister and her husband to celebrate their son George’s first birthday.
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When he asked his mate to print him one copy, his mate said, ‘This book is good, can we print more?’ What did Andy reply? ‘No. DO NOT print this book.’ Pretty sure you can guess what happened next. -
David Walliams
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David Walliams is an actor and writer best known for his work with Matt Lucas in the multi-award-winning sketch show Little Britain. His debut children's novel, The Boy in the Dress, was published in 2008 to unanimous critical acclaim and he has since developed a reputation as a natural successor to Roald Dahl. -
Eugénio de Andrade
The Portuguese poet Eugénio de Andrade, pseudonym of José Fontinhas, is revered as one of the leading names in contemporary Portuguese poetry.
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His poetry is most striking for the depth of his short poems. One of Eugénio de Andrade's most known poems is his Poem to Mother.
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Mariko Tamaki
Mariko Tamaki is a Toronto writer, playwright, activist and performer. She works and performs with fat activists Pretty Porky and Pissed Off and the theatre troupe TOA, whose recent play, A vs. B, was staged at the 2004 Rhubarb Festival at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. Her well-received novel, Cover Me (McGilligan Books) was followed by a short fiction collection, True Lies: The Book of Bad Advice (Women's Press). Mariko's third book, FAKE ID, is due out in spring 2005.
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Mariko Tamaki has performed her work across Canada and through the States, recently appearing at the Calgary Folkfest 2004, Vancouver Writer's Festival 2003, Spatial III, and the Perpetual Motion/Girls Bite Back Tour, which circled though Ottawa, Montreal, Brooklyn and Chicag -
José Rodrigues dos Santos
José Rodrigues dos Santos is the bestselling novelist in Portugal. He is the author of five essays and eight novels, including Portuguese blockbusters Codex 632, which sold 192 000 copies, The Einstein Enigma, 178 000 copies, The Seventh Seal, 190 000 copies, and The Wrath of God, 176 000 copies. His overall sales are above one million books, astonishing figures considering Portugal’s tiny market.
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José’s fiction is published or is about to be published in 17 languages. His novel The Wrath of God won the 2009 Porto Literary Club Award and his other novel Codex 632 was longlisted for the 2010 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
His first novel, The Island of Darkness, is in the process of being adapted for cinema by one of Portugal’s leading film dire -
Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen
SOPHIA DE MELLO BREYNER ANDERSEN nasceu no Porto, a 6 de Novembro de 1919. Entre 1936 e 1939 frequentou o curso de Filologia Clássica na Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, que não concluiu. Foi Presidente da Assembleia Geral da Associação Portuguesa de Escritores e Deputada à Assembleia Constituinte, pelo Partido Socialista (1975). A sua obra reparte-se pela ficção e pela poesia, embora seja nesta última que a sua inspiração clássica dá ao seu verso uma dimensão solar e luminosa, que permite ouvir nitidamente a palavra com todo o peso da sua musicalidade limpa, ao encontro do modelo clássico. Entre as suas obras poéticas contam-se Coral (1950), Mar Novo (1958), Livro Sexto (1962), Geografia (1967), Navegações (1983), Ilhas (1989
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Guerra Junqueiro
Ana Maria Guerra bore Abílio Manuel Guerra Junqueiro to José António Junqueiro Júnior, a supply trader and farmer. Ana died when Abilio was only three years old.
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He made secondary studies in Bragança and at sixteen, he enrolled at the University of Coimbra, to study theology. Two years later, he left to study law, that he concluded in 1873. Then he became secretary of the governor of Angra do Heroísmo, Azores, and later of Viana do Castelo. In 1878, he was elected to the House of Representatives.
In 1885, he at Porto published A velhice do Padre Eterno , which generated strong criticism from Portuguese Catholic Church. After the British Ultimatum and the political crisis associated, he was involved in the political debate in 1891, writing -
Sidónio Muralha
Sidónio Muralha nasceu na Madragoa, Lisboa, a 28 de julho de 1920, e faleceu em Curitiba, Paraná, Brasil, a 8 de dezembro de 1982. É um escritor que se insere na corrente neo-realista. Esteve no Congo Belga, partindo em 1962 para o Brasil. A sua primeira obra, Beco (1941), é considerada uma das precursos do Neo-realismo em Portugal. Dedicou-se à literatura infantil, publicando 15 títulos para crianças.
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José Saramago
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 [with which he] continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality." His works, some of which have been seen as allegories, commonly present subversive perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the theopoetic. In 2003 Harold Bloom described Saramago as "the most gifted novelist alive in the world today."
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Matilde Rosa Araújo
Nasceu em Lisboa a 20 de junho de 1921 e faleceu na mesma cidade no dia 6 de julho de 2010. Licenciou-se em Filologia Românica pela Faculdade de Letra da Universidade Clássica de Lisboa. Foi professora do Ensino Técnico Profissional em Lisboa e noutras cidades do País, assim como professora do primeiro Curso de Literatura para a Infância, que teve lugar na Escola do Magistério Primário de Lisboa. Autora de livros de contos e poesia para o mundo adulto e de mais de duas dezenas de livros de contos e poesia para crianças, dedicou aos problemas da criança e à defesa dos seus direitos. São de sua autoria alguns volumes sobre a importância da infância na criação literária para adultos e sobre a importância da Literatura Infanto-Juvenil na formaç
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Manuel António Pina
Manuel António Pina foi um jornalista e escritor português, galardoado em 2011 com o Prémio Camões.
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O autor licenciou-se em Direito em Coimbra e foi jornalista do Jornal de Notícias durante três décadas. É actualmente cronista do Jornal de Notícias e da revista Notícias Magazine.
A sua obra é principalmente constituída por poesia e literatura infanto-juvenil. É ainda autor de peças de teatro e de obras de ficção e crónica. Algumas dessas obras foram adaptadas ao cinema e TV e editadas em disco.
A sua obra está traduzida em França (francês e corso), Estados Unidos, Espanha (espanhol, galego e catalão), Dinamarca, Alemanha, Países Baixos, Rússia, Croácia e Bulgária. -
Afonso Cruz
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.
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Escreveu seis livros: A Carne de Deus (Bertrand), Enciclopédia da Estória Universal (Quetzal - Grande Prémio de Conto Camilo Castelo Branco 2010), Os Livros Que Devoraram o Meu Pai (Caminho - Prémio Literário Maria Rosa Colaço 2009), A Contradição Humana (Caminho - Prémio Autores 2011 SPA/RTP; escolha White Ravens 2011; Menção Especial do Prémio Nacional de Ilustração 2011) e A Boneca de Kokoschka (Quetzal), O Pintor Debaixo do Lava-Loiças (Caminho). Participou ainda nos livros Almanaque do Dr. Thackery T. Lambshead de Doenças Excêntricas e Desacreditadas ( -
Narine Abgaryan
Наринэ Абгарян
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Narine Yuryevna Abgaryan (Наринэ Абгарян) is a Russian writer of Armenian origin, a blogger. Graduated from Yerevan State Linguistic University V. Ya. Bryusova, since 1993 lives in Moscow. She became known after the publication of the autobiographical book "Manyunya" (2010). With this book, she became a laureate of the Russian National Literary Prize "Manuscript of the Year" in the nomination "Language". Entered the long list of nominees for the 2011 Big Book Award. -
Ana Pessoa
«ANA PESSOA
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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.
Saiu de Portugal com 22 anos para fazer um estágio de 6 meses na Alemanha e nunca mais voltou. Vive em Bruxelas desde 2007, onde trabalha como tradutora.
Tem contos publicados em várias coletâneas e textos premiados em Portugal (incluindo Jovens Criadores '10, Aveiro Jovem Criador 2010 e Jovens Criadores '12) e também noutras paragens (Concurso internacional de contos «Um mar de palavras» 2010, Espanha, Concurso Internacional de Teatro Castello di Duino 2011, Itália).
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Lily Gold
Lily Gold is a sweet and spicy #whychoose romance author living in London, England.
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She has a soft spot for strong guys with big hearts, and thinks the only thing better than one book boyfriend is TWO book boyfriends... or maybe three 😜; When she's not writing, she's usually reading, accidentally killing her potted plants, or finding a pet to cuddle.
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Mona Kasten
Mona Kasten wurde 1992 geboren und studierte Bibliotheks- und Informationsmanagement, bevor sie sich ganz dem Schreiben widmete. Sie lebt gemeinsam mit ihrem Mann und ihren Katzen sowie unendlich vielen Büchern in Hamburg, liebt Koffein in jeglicher Form, lange Waldspaziergänge und Tage, an denen sie nur schreiben kann.
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Amanda Lovelace
Amanda Lovelace is a bestselling American poet who rose to fame through her poetry posted to Tumblr and Instagram. She is the author of the women are some kind of magic series, including the Goodreads Choice Award-winning the princess saves herself in this one and women are some kind of magic.
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Amy Lea
Amy Lea is the international bestselling author of romantic comedies for adults and teens, including Set on You, Exes and O’s, and Mindy Kaling’s Book Studio selection Woke Up Like This.
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Her acclaimed works have been featured in USA Today, Entertainment Weekly, Cosmopolitan, Elle Magazine and has been long listed as a CBC Canada Reads finalist. They have also been optioned for film and sold to over a dozen foreign territories.
When Amy is not writing, she can be found fan-girling over other romance books on Instagram (@amyleabooks), eating potato chips with reckless abandon, and snuggling with her husband and two goldendoodles in Ottawa, Canada.
Amy is represented by Kim Lionetti at BookEnds Literary Agency. -
Georgie Tilney
Georgie Tilney grew up in Auckland and Christchurch, before moving to London in 2011. She's worked as an actress, a life model, a production manager, and a freelance writer. Under the name Janina Matthewson, she has published Of Things Gone Astray, and You Feel It Just Below the Ribs, as well as writing audio dramas for the BBC, Radiotopia, and Night Vale Presents.
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