Carlos de Oliveira
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 que foi director). Poeta e romancista, estreou-se com o volume de poemas Turismo (1942) e o romance Casa da Duna (1943). Publicou depois os volumes de poemas Mãe Pobre (1945), Colheita Perdida (1948), Descida aos Infernos (1949), Terra de Harmonia (1950), Cantata (1960), entre outros, e compendiou a sua obra poética em Trabalho Poético (1977-78). Além de romances (Alcateia, 1944; Pequenos Burgueses, 1948; Uma Abelha na Chuva, 1953, e Finisterra, 1978), publicou o livro de crónicas O Aprendiz de Feiticeiro (1971). Foi condecorado pela Presidência
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VASCO PULIDO VALENTE nasceu em Lisboa, a 21 de Novembro de 1941. Licenciado em Filosofia pela Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa e doutorado em História pela Universidade de Oxford, é Investigador-coordenador do Instituto de Ciências Sociais (ICS-IUL). Leccionou no Instituto Superior de Economia da Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, no Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa e na Faculdade de Ciências Humanas da Universidade Católica Portuguesa. Foi Secretário de Estado Adjunto do Primeiro-Ministro e Secretário de Estado da Cultura no VI Governo Constitucional (1980-1981) e deputado à Assembleia da República (1995). Colunista dos jornais Expresso, Diário de Notícias, A Tarde e O Independente. Comentador da T.S.F., da Rádio Comercial
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Maria Gabriela Llansol
MARIA GABRIELA LLANSOL nasceu a 24 de Novembro de 1931, em Lisboa. Licenciou-se em Direito e em Ciências Pedagógicas, tendo trabalhado em áreas relacionadas com problemas educacionais. Em 1965, abandonou Portugal para se fixar na Bélgica. Regressou há alguns anos a Portugal. É um caso ímpar na ficção contemporânea, de jorrante, inesperada e original criatividade. De estilo muito próprio, a sua forte personalidade afirmou-se desde 1957, com as narrativas de Os Pregos na Erva, consolidando-se com O Livro das Comunidades, 1978, e com todas as suas obras posteriores, de que poderemos salientar A Restante Vida, 1978, e Um Beijo Dado mais tarde, 1990, e Lisboaleipzig, 1994 e 1995. Aliando a subjectividade enunciativa a um forte pendor mítico de i
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Mīrābāī
Meera [(ca. 1498-1547)], also known as Mira Bai, was a 16th century Hindu mystic poetess and devotee of Krishna. She is celebrated as a poet and has been definitively claimed by the North Indian Hindu tradition of Bhakti saints.
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Meera was born in a royal family of Rajasthan, and her education included music, religion, politics and government. She married Bhojraj the crown prince of Mewar in 1516, her husband was wounded in 1518 and died in 1521 after a Hindu-Muslim battle, her own father died in a war with Babur's army in 1527, and little else is known about her life with any certainty. She is mentioned in Bhaktamal, confirming that she was widely known and a cherished figure in the Indian bhakti movement culture by about 1600 CE. Most legen -
Raul Brandão
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 lyricism of his speech. Brandão was born in Foz do Douro, a parish of Porto, where he spent the majority of his youth. Born in a family of sailors, the ocean and the sailors were a recurrent theme in his work.
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Brandão finished his secondary studies in 1891. After that, the joined the military academy, where he initiated a long career in the Ministry of War. While working in the ministry, he also worked as a journalist and published several books.
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Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick (1851); Typee (1846), a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia; and Billy Budd, Sailor, a posthumously published novella. At the time of his death, Melville was no longer well known to the public, but the 1919 centennial of his birth was the starting point of a Melville revival. Moby-Dick eventually would be considered one of the great American novels.
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Isaac Asimov
Works of prolific Russian-American writer Isaac Asimov include popular explanations of scientific principles, The Foundation Trilogy (1951-1953), and other volumes of fiction.
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Isaac Asimov, a professor of biochemistry, wrote as a highly successful author, best known for his books.
Asimov, professor, generally considered of all time, edited more than five hundred books and ninety thousand letters and postcards. He published in nine of the ten major categories of the Dewey decimal classification but lacked only an entry in the category of philosophy (100).
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Clarice Lispector
Clarice Lispector was a Brazilian writer. Acclaimed internationally for her innovative novels and short stories, she was also a journalist. Born to a Jewish family in Podolia in Western Ukraine, she was brought to Brazil as an infant, amidst the disasters engulfing her native land following the First World War.
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She grew up in northeastern Brazil, where her mother died when she was nine. The family moved to Rio de Janeiro when she was in her teens. While in law school in Rio she began publishing her first journalistic work and short stories, catapulting to fame at age 23 with the publication of her first novel, 'Near to the Wild Heart' (Perto do Coração Selvagem), written as an interior monologue in a style and language that was considered re -
Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino was born in Cuba and grew up in Italy. He was a journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952-1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965), and the novels Invisible Cities (1972) and If On a Winter's Night a Traveler (1979).
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His style is not easy to classify; much of his writing has an air reminiscent to that of fantastical fairy tales (Our Ancestors, Cosmicomics), although sometimes his writing is more "realistic" and in the scenic mode of observation (Difficult Loves, for example). Some of his writing has been called postmodern, reflecting on literature and the act of reading, while some has been labeled magical realist, others fables, others simpl -
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.
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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.
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Ivan Turgenev
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (Cyrillic: Иван Сергеевич Тургенев) was a novelist, poet, and dramatist, and now ranks as one of the towering figures of Russian literature. His major works include the short-story collection A Sportsman’s Sketches (1852) and the novels Rudin (1856), Home of the Gentry (1859), On the Eve (1860), and Fathers and Sons (1862).
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These works offer realistic, affectionate portrayals of the Russian peasantry and penetrating studies of the Russian intelligentsia who were attempting to move the country into a new age. His masterpiece, Fathers and Sons, is considered one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century.
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Camilo Castelo Branco
«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, historiador, poeta e tradutor. Teve uma vida atribulada, que lhe serviu muitas vezes de inspiração para as suas novelas. Foi o primeiro escritor de língua portuguesa a viver exclusivamente do que escrevia. Durante quase 40 anos, entre 1851 e 1890, escreveu à pena, logo sem qualquer ajuda mecânica, mais de duzentas e sessenta obras, com a média superior a 6 por ano. Prolífico e fecundo escritor, deixou obras de referência na literatura lusitana. Apesar de toda essa fecundidade, Camilo Ferreira Botelho Castelo Branco não permitiu que a intensa produçã
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José Cardoso Pires
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 superiores pela marinha mercante. Entre 1969 e 1971, foi docente de Literatura Portuguesa e Brasileira no King’s College, em Londres. Foi director literário de editoras lisboetas e director-adjunto do Diário de Lisboa (1974-75). Estreou-se com Os Caminheiros e Outros Contos (1949) e obteve o Prémio Camilo Castelo Branco com o romance O Hóspede de Job (1964). Dentro do neo-realismo, retoma a tradição satírica setecentista. Entre outros, escreveu os romances O Delfim (1968), Dinossauro Excelentíssimo (1972), Balada da Praia dos Cães (1982, Prémio da A
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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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Albert Camus
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 Prize of 1957 for literature.
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Origin and his experiences of this representative of non-metropolitan literature in the 1930s dominated influences in his thought and work.
He also adapted plays of Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Lope de Vega, Dino Buzzati, and Requiem for a Nun of William Faulkner. One may trace his enjoyment of the theater back to his membership in l'Equipe, an Algerian group, whose "collective creation" Révolte dans les Asturies (1934) was banned for political reasons.
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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.
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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); -
Dulce Maria Cardoso
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 generosa de uma mangueira que existia no quintal, o mar e o espaço que lhe moldou a alma. Regressou a Portugal na ponte aérea de 1975. Licenciou-se em Direito pela Faculdade de Direito de Lisboa, escreveu argumentos para cinema, gastou tempo em inutilidades. Também escreveu contos. Tem fé, uma família, um punhado de amigos, o Blui e o Clude. Continua a escrever e a prezar inutilidades. Vive em Lisboa.
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Raul Brandão
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 lyricism of his speech. Brandão was born in Foz do Douro, a parish of Porto, where he spent the majority of his youth. Born in a family of sailors, the ocean and the sailors were a recurrent theme in his work.
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Brandão finished his secondary studies in 1891. After that, the joined the military academy, where he initiated a long career in the Ministry of War. While working in the ministry, he also worked as a journalist and published several books.
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский (Russian)
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Works, such as the novels Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880), of Russian writer Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky or Dostoevski combine religious mysticism with profound psychological insight.
Very influential writings of Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin included Problems of Dostoyevsky's Works (1929),
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky composed short stories, essays, and journals. His literature explores humans in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century and engages with a variety of philosophies and themes. People most acclaimed his Demons(1872) .
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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.
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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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Joana Bértholo
Nasceu em Lisboa em 1982. É licenciada em Design de Comunicação pelas Belas-Artes de Lisboa e doutorada em Estudos Culturais pela European University Viadrina, na Alemanha. Em paralelo à criação literária, escreve para teatro, faz apoio dramatúrgico e dá aulas. Na editorial Caminho tem publicados três romances, dois livros de contos e um livro infanto-juvenil. O primeiro romance «Diálogos Para o Fim do Mundo» ganhou o Prémio Maria Amália Vaz de Carvalho 2009. «O Museu do Pensamento» foi considerado pela Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores o melhor livro Infanto-Juvenil de 2018; e o romance «Ecologia» foi finalista do prémio APE, PEN, DST, Casino da Póvoa e semifinalista do Prémio Oceanos 2019. Em teatro, começou por escrever para o Festival Tea
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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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