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  Manuel Tiago

  Pseudónimo literário de Álvaro Cunhal, que com ele assinou obras de ficção, designadamente Até Amanhã, Camaradas (1975), Cinco Dias, Cinco Noites (1975) e A Estrela de Seis Pontas (1994, adaptado para cinema por José Fonseca e Costa). A verdadeira identidade de Manuel Tiago só foi confirmada aquando da publicação deste último romance. Durante anos, muito se especulou acerca da autoria das obras.

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  Philip Roth

  Philip Milton Roth was an American novelist and short-story writer. Roth's fiction—often set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey—is known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosophically and formally blurring the distinction between reality and fiction, for its "sensual, ingenious style" and for its provocative explorations of American identity. He first gained attention with the 1959 short story collection Goodbye, Columbus, which won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. Ten years later, he published the bestseller Portnoy's Complaint. Nathan Zuckerman, Roth's literary alter ego, narrates several of his books. A fictionalized Philip Roth narrates some of his others, such as the alternate history The Plot Against A

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  Haruki Murakami

  Haruki Murakami (村上春樹) is a Japanese writer. His novels, essays, and short stories have been best-sellers in Japan and internationally, with his work translated into 50 languages and having sold millions of copies outside Japan. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the Gunzo Prize for New Writers, the World Fantasy Award, the Tanizaki Prize, Yomiuri Prize for Literature, the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, the Noma Literary Prize, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Kiriyama Prize for Fiction, the Goodreads Choice Awards for Best Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize, and the Princess of Asturias Awards.
  Growing up in Ashiya, near Kobe before moving to Tokyo to attend Waseda University, he published his first novel Hear the

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  Allen Ginsberg

  Allen Ginsberg was a groundbreaking American poet and activist best known for his central role in the Beat Generation and for writing the landmark poem Howl. Born in 1926 in Newark, New Jersey, to Jewish parents, Ginsberg grew up in a household shaped by both intellectualism and psychological struggle. His father, Louis Ginsberg, was a published poet and a schoolteacher, while his mother, Naomi, suffered from severe mental illness, which deeply affected Ginsberg and later influenced his writing—most notably in his poem Kaddish.
  As a young man, Ginsberg attended Columbia University, where he befriended other future Beat luminaries such as Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and Neal Cassady. These relationships formed the core of what bec

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  Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

  Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (谷崎 潤一郎) was a Japanese author, and one of the major writers of modern Japanese literature, perhaps the most popular Japanese novelist after Natsume Sōseki.
  
  Some of his works present a rather shocking world of sexuality and destructive erotic obsessions; others, less sensational, subtly portray the dynamics of family life in the context of the rapid changes in 20th-century Japanese society.
  
  Frequently his stories are narrated in the context of a search for cultural identity in which constructions of "the West" and "Japanese tradition" are juxtaposed. The results are complex, ironic, demure, and provocative.

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  Fernando Pessoa

  Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa was a poet and writer.
  
  It is sometimes said that the four greatest Portuguese poets of modern times are Fernando Pessoa. The statement is possible since Pessoa, whose name means ‘person’ in Portuguese, had three alter egos who wrote in styles completely different from his own. In fact Pessoa wrote under dozens of names, but Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis and Álvaro de Campos were – their creator claimed – full-fledged individuals who wrote things that he himself would never or could never write. He dubbed them ‘heteronyms’ rather than pseudonyms, since they were not false names but “other names”, belonging to distinct literary personalities. Not only were their styles different; they thought differently, they h

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  Rainer Maria Rilke

  A mystic lyricism and precise imagery often marked verse of German poet Rainer Maria Rilke, whose collections profoundly influenced 20th-century German literature and include The Book of Hours (1905) and The Duino Elegies (1923).
  
  People consider him of the greatest 20th century users of the language.
  
  His haunting images tend to focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety — themes that tend to position him as a transitional figure between the traditional and the modernist poets.
  
  His two most famous sequences include the Sonnets to Orpheus , and his most famous prose works include the Letters to a Young Poet and the semi-autobiographical The Notebooks of Malt

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  Boris Vian

  Boris Vian was a French polymath: writer, poet, musician, singer, translator, critic, actor, inventor and engineer. He is best remembered for novels such as L’Écume des jours and L'Arrache-cœur (translated into English as Froth on the Daydream and Heartsnatcher, respectively). He is also known for highly controversial "criminal" fiction released under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan and some of his songs (particularly the anti-war Le Déserteur). Vian was also fascinated with jazz: he served as liaison for, among others, Duke Ellington and Miles Davis in Paris, wrote for several French jazz-reviews (Le Jazz Hot, Paris Jazz) and published numerous articles dealing with jazz both in the United States and in France.

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  Machado de Assis

  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, playwright and short story writer. He is widely regarded as the most important writer of Brazilian literature. However, he did not gain widespread popularity outside Brazil in his own lifetime.
  Machado's works had a great influence on Brazilian literary schools of the late 19th century and 20th century. José Saramago, Carlos Fuentes, Susan Sontag and Harold Bloom are among his admirers and Bloom calls him "the supreme black literary artist to date."
  
  

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  Virginie Despentes

  Virginie Despentes is a French writer, novelist and filmmaker, born in Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle. Her most famous novel, and film of the same name is Baise-moi, a contemporary example of the exploitation films genre known as rape and revenge films. Her most recent biographical, non-fiction work, King Kong Theory has also been translated into English, and recounts her experiences working within the French sex industry, and attendant infamy and praise associated with the aforementioned Baise-Moi.

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  Ingeborg Bachmann

  “What actually is possible, however, is transformation. And the transformative effect that emanates from new works leads us to new perception, to a new feeling, new consciousness.” This sentence from Ingeborg Bachmann’s Frankfurt Lectures on Poetics (1959-60) can also be applied to her own self-consciousness as an author, and to the history of her reception. Whether in the form of lyric poetry, short prose, radio plays, libretti, lectures and essays or longer fiction, Bachmann’s œuvre had as its goal and effect “to draw people into the experiences of the writers,” into “new experiences of suffering.” (GuI 139-140). But it was especially her penetrating and artistically original representation of female subjectivity within male-dominated soc

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  Arthur Rimbaud

  Hallucinatory work of French poet Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud strongly influenced the surrealists.
  
  With known transgressive themes, he influenced modern literature and arts, prefiguring. He started writing at a very young age and excelled as a student but abandoned his formal education in his teenage years to run away to Paris amidst the Franco-Prussian war. During his late adolescence and early adulthood, he produced the bulk of his literary output. After assembling his last major work, Illuminations , Rimbaud completely stopped writing literature at age 20 years in 1874.
  
  A hectic, violent romantic relationship, which lasted nearly two years at times, with fellow poet Paul Verlaine engaged Rimbaud, a libertine, restless soul. Aft

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  Mariana Alcoforado

  Mariana Vaz Alcoforado (Santa Maria da Feira, Beja, 22 April 1640 - Beja, 28 July 1723), was a Portuguese nun, living in the convent of the Poor Ladies (Convento de Nossa Senhora da Conceição) in Beja, Portugal.
  
  Debate continues as to whether Mariana was the real Portuguese author of the Letters of a Portuguese Nun (comprising five letters). Her purported love affair with the French officer Noël Bouton, Marquis de Chamilly and later Marshall of France, has made Beja famous in (mainly Portuguese and French) literary circles.
  
  Some literary scholars consider the letters a fictional work and their authorship is ascribed to Gabriel-Joseph de La Vergne, comte de Guilleragues (1628–1685), although a real nun named Mariana Alcoforado did exist. In he

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  Maria Isabel Barreno

  MARIA ISABEL BARRENO nasceu em Lisboa, a 10 de Julho de 1939. Licenciou-se em Ciências Histórico-Filosóficas, pela Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa. Trabalhou no Instituto Nacional de Investigação Industrial, foi jornalista e Conselheira Cultural para os Assuntos do Ensino na embaixada portuguesa em Paris (1997-2002). Publicou um total de 24 obras, entre as quais dez romances e quatro livros de contos. Participou também em diversas antologias de contos e recebeu os prémios Camilo Castelo Branco e do Pen Club Português para o livro de contos Os sensos incomuns, e o prémio Fernando Namora para o romance Crónica do tempo. Em 2009, publicou o seu último romance Vozes do Vento, sobre a história dos antepassados do seu pai em Cabo Verde. Publicou ai

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  Herberto Helder

  Herberto Helder was born into a family of Jewish ancestry in the Portuguese Atlantic island of Madeira. In 1946 he traveled to Lisbon to complete his secondary studies and subsequently in 1948 moved to Coimbra to study Law at university. In 1949 he had changed to the Humanities University to study Romance Philology but dropped out after three years without completing the course. After returning to Lisbon he took up several temporal jobs, and got in contact with a circle of artists and writers such as Mário Cesariny, Luiz Pacheco, João Vieira and Hélder Macedo, known as the "café gelo" group . This group revolved around Surrealism which would inform his early writings. In 1958 his first book, O Amor em Visita, was published. In the following

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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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  Valter Hugo Mãe

  valter hugo mãe é o nome artístico do escritor português Valter Hugo Lemos. Além de escritor é editor, artista plástico e cantor.
  Nasceu em Saurimo, Angola em 1971. Passou a infância em Paços de Ferreira e, actualmente, vive em Vila do Conde.
  É licenciado em Direito e pós-graduado em Literatura Portuguesa Moderna e Contemporânea.
  Vencedor do Prémio José Saramago no ano de 2007
  É autor dos livros de poesia: Livro de Maldições (2006); O Resto da Minha Alegria Seguido de a Remoção das Almas e Útero (2003); A Cobrição das Filhas (2001); Estou Escondido na Cor Amarga do Fim da Tarde e Três Minutos Antes de a Maré Encher (2000); Egon Shiele Auto-Retrato de Dupla Encarnação, (Prémio de Poesia Almeida Garrett) e Entorno a Casa Sobre a Cabeça (1999);

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  José Alberto Oliveira

  Médico cardiologista, José Alberto Oliveira nasceu em 1952 em Souto da Casa, Fundão, e vive atualmente em Lisboa. Publicou o seu primeiro livro de poemas em 1992, na Assírio & Alvim, e surpreendeu pelo seu lirismo discreto e pela diversidade temática de aproximação a aspetos do quotidiano, onde além disso são notórias as influências da poesia inglesa. Traduziu Auden, Russell Edson, Frank O’Hara e Charles Simic, entre outros. Foi um dos principais colaboradores do livro «Rosa do Mundo — 2001 poemas para o futuro».

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  Luís de Sttau Monteiro

  At the age of 10, he left to London, with his father, which was a portuguese ambasssador.
  
  He comes back in 1943 at the time his father was fired by Salazar.
  
  Sttau Monteiro got an advocate degree in Lisbon and only practiced his profession for a short amount of time.
  He leaves again to London, becaming a Formula 2 racer.
  
  He comes back to Portugal and be part on numerous publications, as Almanaque magazine or A mosca in Lisbon's Diary.
  
  In 1961 he published the play Felizmente há Luar! (engl: Finally there is Moonlight!), being distinguished with the Theater's price. The play was censured and prohibited by the fascist regime.
  
  Only in 1978, the above play was annouced in the Nacional Theater. 160 000 copies were sold.
  
  Sttau Monteiro was arrested by

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  Mário de Sá-Carneiro

  Mário de Sá-Carneiro (Lisboa, 19 de Maio de 1890 — Paris, 26 de Abril de 1916) foi um poeta, contista e ficcionista português, um dos grandes expoentes do modernismo em Portugal e um dos mais reputados membros da Geração d’Orpheu.
  
  Na fase inicial da sua obra, Mário de Sá-Carneiro revela influências de várias correntes literárias, como o decadentismo, o simbolismo, ou o saudosismo, então em franco declínio; posteriormente, por influência de Pessoa, viria a aderir a correntes de vanguarda, como o interseccionismo, o paulismo ou o futurismo.
  
  Nessas pôde exprimir com vontade a sua personalidade, sendo notórios a confusão dos sentidos, o delírio, quase a raiar a alucinação; ao mesmo tempo, revela um certo narcisismo e egolatria, ao procurar exprim

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  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.
  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 (

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  Isabela Figueiredo

  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 no Diário de Notícias e é professora de Português. Estudou Línguas e Literaturas Lusófonas, Sociologia das Religiões e Questões de Género. Publicou os seus primeiros textos no extinto suplemento DN Jovem, do Diário de Notícias, em 1983.
  É autora de Conto É Como Quem Diz (Odivelas: Europress, 1988), novela que recebeu o primeiro prémio da Mostra Portuguesa de Artes e Ideias, em 1988, e de Caderno de Memórias Coloniais, cuja primeira edição data de 2009. Escreve regularmente no blogue Novo Mundo. Desenvolve workshops de escrita criativa e partici

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  Adília Lopes

  "Adília Lopes da Silva and Maria José de Oliveira Viana Fidalgo are one and the same person. They are me. As poppy is a poppy. And many other names that I don’t know. Adília Lopes is water in gaseous state, Maria José is the same water in solid form. I'm a woman, I'm Portuguese, I’m from Lisbon, I’m a poet, I'm a linguist (we all are), I'm a physicist, I'm a librarian, I'm an archivist, I'm shortsighted, I was born on 20 April 1960, I'm single, I have no children, I'm catholic, I have brown eyes, I measure 1.56 m, now I weight 80 kg, I use the short hair since 1981, the hair is dark brown with many white hairs. (...) it's clear that the poet is always the idiot of the family, the crazy one".

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  Raphael Montes

  Lawyer and writer Raphael Montes was born in 1990, in Rio de Janeiro. His short stories have been published in several mystery anthologies, as well as magazines.
  
  At the age of 20, he impressed critics and public alike with Roulette (Editora Benvirá), an action-packed crime novel that was a finalist in the 2010 Benvirá Literature Prize, the Brazilian National Library’s 2012 Machado de Assis Prize and the prestigious 2013 São Paulo Literature Prize, and has sold over 15 thousand copies.
  
  At 24, he published his second novel, Perfect Days (Companhia das Letras), which has been phenomenally successful: translation rights have been sold to 13 territories (USA, Canada, England, France, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Germany, Turkey, Holland, Macau, Hong K

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  Eça de Queirós

  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 leading 19th-century Portuguese novelist whose fame was international. The son of a prominent magistrate, Eça de Queiroz spent his early years with relatives and was sent to boarding school at the age of five. After receiving his degree in law in 1866 from the University of Coimbra, where he read widely French, he settled in Lisbon. There his father, who had since married Eça de Queiroz' mother, made up for past neglect by helping the young man make a start in the legal profession. Eça de Queiroz' real interest lay in literature, however, and soon

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  Ailton Krenak

  Ailton Krenak é escritor, roteirista, porta-voz e pensador indígena. Integrante da comunidade dos Krenak, aos dezessete anos migrou com seus parentes para o estado do Paraná. Posteriormente, tornou-se produtor gráfico e jornalista. Dedica-se ao movimento indígena desde muito jovem. Graças a esforços coletivos e do próprio escritor, o número de indivíduos de sua comunidade voltou a subir, depois de sofrer grande queda em números totais até os anos 1980, e fechou o século 20 com 150 indivíduos. É professor doutor Honoris Causa pela Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora. Participou da antologia A outra margem do ocidente (Minc-Funarte/ Companhia das Letras, 1999), e publicou a entrevista Ailton Krenak (Azougue, 2015) e O lugar onde a Terra desc

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  José Alberto Oliveira

  Médico cardiologista, José Alberto Oliveira nasceu em 1952 em Souto da Casa, Fundão, e vive atualmente em Lisboa. Publicou o seu primeiro livro de poemas em 1992, na Assírio & Alvim, e surpreendeu pelo seu lirismo discreto e pela diversidade temática de aproximação a aspetos do quotidiano, onde além disso são notórias as influências da poesia inglesa. Traduziu Auden, Russell Edson, Frank O’Hara e Charles Simic, entre outros. Foi um dos principais colaboradores do livro «Rosa do Mundo — 2001 poemas para o futuro».

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  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.
  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.
  In 2001, he received the Portuguese award Prémio Camões.
  
  

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