Jorge Sousa Braga

Licenciado em Medicina, nasceu em Vila Verde, Braga em 1957. Exerce a especialidade de Obstetrícia num hospital do Porto. A sua obra poética tem vindo a revelar-se de uma criatividade notável, sendo notório desde o primeiro livro De Manhã Vamos Todos Acordar Com Uma Pérola No Cu, de 1981, uma abordagem da temática dos Descobrimentos e da portugalidade sempre tomada pelo lado irónico e surrealista, com ressonâncias do movimento Beat, de São Francisco. A sensualidade - e a sexualidade, - em poemas íntimos e por vezes extremos bem como a sua paixão pela poesia oriental têm-no levado a escrever haikus em língua portuguesa com assinalável perfeição. Incansável leitor de poesia verteu para português poemas de Jorge Luis Borges, Matsuo Bashô, Li P

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JOÃO PEDRO GEORGE nasceu em Moçambique, a 13 de Fevereiro de 1972. Licenciado em Sociologia, Mestre em Sociologia Económica e Histórica e Doutor em Sociologia da Cultura, com a tese Luíz Pacheco: maldição e consagração no meio literário português, pela Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, onde leccionou entre 1998 e 2008, como professor assistente convidado.
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George Saunders was born December 2, 1958 and raised on the south side of Chicago. In 1981 he received a B.S. in Geophysical Engineering from Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado. He worked at Radian International, an environmental engineering firm in Rochester, NY as a technical writer and geophysical engineer from 1989 to 1996. He has also worked in Sumatra on an oil exploration geophysics crew, as a doorman in Beverly Hills, a roofer in Chicago, a convenience store clerk, a guitarist in a Texas country-and-western band, and a knuckle-puller in a West Texas slaughterhouse.

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James Baldwin

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Works of American writer James Arthur Baldwin, outspoken critic of racism, include Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953), a novel, and Notes of a Native Son (1955), a collection of essays.

James Arthur Baldwin authored plays and poems in society.

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Stanisław Lem

Stanisław Lem (staˈɲiswaf lɛm) was a Polish science fiction, philosophical and satirical writer of Jewish descent. His books have been translated into 41 languages and have sold over 27 million copies. He is perhaps best known as the author of Solaris, which has twice been made into a feature film. In 1976, Theodore Sturgeon claimed that Lem was the most widely read science-fiction writer in the world.

His works explore philosophical themes; speculation on technology, the nature of intelligence, the impossibility of mutual communication and understanding, despair about human limitations and humankind's place in the universe. They are sometimes presented as fiction, but others are in the form of essays or philosophical books. Translations of
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Alejo Carpentier

Writings of Cuban author, musicologist, and diplomat Alejo Carpentier influenced the development of magical realism; his novels include El siglo de las luces! (1962) and The Kingdom of This World (1949).

Alejo Carpentier Blagoobrasoff, an essayist, greatly influenced Latin American literature during its "boom" period.

Perhaps most important intellectual figure of the 20th century, this classically trained pianist and theorist of politics and literature produced avant-garde radio programming. Best known Carpentier also collaborated with such luminaries as Igor Stravinsky, Darius Milhaud, Georges Bataille, and Antonin Artaud. With Havana, he strongly self-identified throughout his life. People jailed and exiled him, who lived for many
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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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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.

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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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Mário Cesariny

One of the greatest portuguese poets and painters. A convict surrealist who introduced the Cadavre Exquis in Portugal, also known for being an excentric and bohemian artist. In France Cesariny met André Breton and founded the group "Os Surrealistas" with other portuguese artists such as António Maria Lisboa, Risques Pereira, Artur do Cruzeiro Seixas, Pedro Oom, Fernando José Francisco and Mário Henrique Leiria.
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Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen

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"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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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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Andreia C. Faria

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