Alberto Miranda

Alberto Miranda é jornalista e comentador especializado em famílias reais. Passou pela rádio e pela televisão e foi director, chefe de redacção e editor de várias revistas. É licenciado em Jornalismo Internacional pela Escola Superior de Jornalismo do Porto e mestre em Ciências da Comunicação pela Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa. É autor de @diario.da.realeza, a única página de Instagram dedicada em exclusivo a este universo.

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Ken Follett

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.

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Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and his criminal conviction for gross indecency for homosexual acts.
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Shirley Jackson

Shirley Jackson was an influential American author. A popular writer in her time, her work has received increasing attention from literary critics in recent years. She has influenced such writers as Stephen King, Nigel Kneale, and Richard Matheson.

She is best known for her dystopian short story, "The Lottery" (1948), which suggests there is a deeply unsettling underside to bucolic, smalltown America. In her critical biography of Shirley Jackson, Lenemaja Friedman notes that when Shirley Jackson's story "The Lottery" was published in the June 28, 1948, issue of The New Yorker, it received a response that "no New Yorker story had ever received." Hundreds of letters poured in that were characterized by, as Jackson put it, "bewilderment, specul
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José Mattoso

JOSÉ MATTOSO nasceu em Leiria, a 22 de Janeiro de 1933. Professor catedrático jubilado, doutorou-se em História Medieval pela Universidade de Lovaina (Bélgica), em 1966, quando era monge beneditino do Mosteiro de Singeverga, onde permaneceu até 1969. Pediu a redução ao estado laical em 1970, iniciando então uma carreira universitária. Leccionou na Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, entre 1971 e 1977, e, daí até 1990, na Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Universidade de que foi também vice-reitor (1991-1995). Foi presidente do Instituto Português de Arquivos (1988-1990), director do Instituto de Arquivos Nacionais / Torre do Tombo (1996-1998) e Presidente do Conselho Científico das Ciências S
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João Tordo

João Tordo was born in 1975. He has published twenty-one books - novels, crime novels and essays - and received several awards, including the José Saramago Literary Prize 2009, the Fernando Namora Prize 2021 and the GQ Prize. He was a finalist for many other awards, including the European Literary Prize, the Fernando Namora Prize, the Oceanos Prize and the PEN Club Prize. His books have been published in several countries, including France, Italy, Germany, Hungary, Spain, Croatia, Serbia, Czech Republic, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Colombia.

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Tânia Ganho

Tânia Ganho was born in Coimbra, in 1973, and starting writing at an early age. When she was 12, she won a national literary competition, "Ler Melhor para Viver Melhor", but it was only in 2005 that she decided to publish her first novel, "A Vida Sem Ti" ("Life Without You", Oficina do Livro), followed by "Cuba Libre" (Oficina do Livro, 2007), "A Lucidez do Amor" ("The War Wife", Porto Editora, 2010) , "A Mulher-Casa" ("La Femme-Maison", Porto Editora, 2012), and "Apneia" (Casa das Letras, 2020), a disturbing story about domestic violence and child abuse.

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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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Bruno M. Franco

Bruno M. Franco é um escritor português nascido em setembro de 1990.
Licenciado em Radioterapia, trabalha no IPO de Lisboa. Praticou natação de competição desde 2002 até 2016, representando o Clube Lisnave e o CIRL. No currículo tem a publicação de quatro livros que fazem parte da afamada Saga Mortal.
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Han Kang

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Han Kang was born in 1970 in South Korea. She is the author of The Vegetarian, winner of the International Booker Prize, as well as Human Acts, The White Book, Greek Lessons, and We Do Not Part. In 2024, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”
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Jenna Evans Welch

Jenna Evans Welch was the kind of insatiable child reader who had no choice but to grow up to become a writer. She is the New York Times Bestselling author of LOVE & GELATO and the upcoming LOVE & LUCK. When she isn’t writing girl abroad stories, Jenna can be found chasing her children or making elaborate messes in the kitchen. She lives in Salt Lake City, Utah with her husband and two young children.
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José Correia Guedes

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Lourenço Seruya

Lourenço Seruya nasceu em Lisboa em 1992.

Concluiu em 2015 o Curso de Formação de Atores da ACT – Escola de Atores e trabalha há mais de dez anos em teatro, televisão e cinema.

Paralelamente à representação, é professor de Expressão Dramática e orienta formações de Team Building para empresas através do Teatro em Equipa.

Estreou-se na literatura policial com A Mão que Mata, ao qual se seguiram A Maldição, Crime na Quinta das Lágrimas e Crime na Aldeia.

No seguimento da sua atividade enquanto escritor, dá aulas de Escrita Criativa.

Tem um irmão gémeo.
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Nuno Palma

Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics and the Director of the Arthur Lewis Lab for Comparative Development, University of Manchester. Research Fellow at Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa. Research Fellow at CEPR, London.
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