Luísa Castel-Branco

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  Julian Barnes

  Julian Patrick Barnes is an English writer. He won the Man Booker Prize in 2011 with The Sense of an Ending, having been shortlisted three times previously with Flaubert's Parrot, England, England, and Arthur & George. Barnes has also written crime fiction under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh (having married Pat Kavanagh). In addition to novels, Barnes has published collections of essays and short stories.
  In 2004 he became a Commandeur of L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His honours also include the Somerset Maugham Award and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. He was awarded the 2021 Jerusalem Prize.

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  Miguel Sousa Tavares

  Miguel Sousa Tavares is a portuguese journalist and was born in Porto, on the 25th June 1952. His mother, Sophia de Mello Breyner, was a poetess and his father, Francisco de Sousa Tavares, a lawyer and a journalist. After taking the Law course, he carried advocacy during twelve years, but left it permanently to become a full time journalist.
  He first appeared at television in 1978, by entering the Radiotelevisão Portuguesa channel (Portuguese Radiotelevision).
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  Annie Ernaux

  The author of some twenty works of fiction and memoir, Annie Ernaux is considered by many to be France’s most important writer. In 2022, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She has also won the Prix Renaudot for A Man's Place and the Marguerite Yourcenar Prize for her body of work. More recently she received the International Strega Prize, the Prix Formentor, the French-American Translation Prize, and the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation for The Years, which was also shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2019. Her other works include Exteriors, A Girl's Story, A Woman's Story, The Possession, Simple Passion, Happening, I Remain in Darkness, Shame, A Frozen Woman, and A Man's Place.

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  Joyce Maynard

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  Souad

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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 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.
  
  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

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  Margarida Rebelo Pinto

  Margarida Rebelo Pinto licenciou-se em Línguas e Literaturas Modernas na Universidade Clássica de Lisboa e iniciou a actividade de jornalista em várias publicações como: O Independente, Se7e, Marie Claire e Diário de Notícias. Enquanto escritora, escreveu seis romances, quatro livros de crónicas, um livro para crianças e uma biografia.
  
  O seu primeiro livro, Sei lá, publicado em 1999, foi um dos maiores sucessos de vendas em Portugal, atingindo números de vendas pouco usuais para o país. Mais tarde, com os seus títulos seguintes, rapidamente alcançou um êxito similar. Actualmente, as suas obras encontram-se traduzidas na Espanha, Brasil, Países Baixos, Bélgica, Alemanha e Lituânia.
  
  Paralelamente à escrita, Margarida dedicou-se também ao cinema

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  Lucie Whitehouse

  Lucie Whitehouse was born in the Cotswolds in 1975 and grew up in Warwickshire. She studied Classics at Oxford University and then began a career in publishing while spending evenings, weekends and holidays working on the book that would eventually become THE HOUSE AT MIDNIGHT.
  
  Having married in 2011, she now divides her time between the UK and Brooklyn, where she lives with her husband. She writes full time and has contributed features to the Times, the Sunday Times, the Independent, Elle and Red Magazine.

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  Fátima Lopes

  Fátima Lopes é apresentadora de televisão.
  Licenciou-se em Comunicação Social, trabalhando depois na área de marketing e comunicação empresarial.
  Assinou crónicas para o jornal Diário Popular e para a Rádio Minuto. Distinguida pela Casa da Imprensa como Melhor Apresentadora de Entretenimento, em 2004, tornou-se um rosto da SIC, canal onde se estreou na apresentação, com Perdoa-me (1994). Seguiram-se os programas All You Need Is Love, Surprise Show , Fátima Lopes (com mais de 600 emissões) e SIC 10 Horas, que foi líder de audiências durante quatro anos. Comandou Fátima, exibido durante a manhã até 2009 e neste momento, apresenta o programa Vida Nova todas as tardes no terceiro canal da televisão portuguesa.
  Apresentou ainda os desfiles Moda Pa

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  María Dueñas

  María Dueñas Vinuesa was born on 1964 in Puertollano, Spain. She has seven siblings. She is a professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Murcia, and is also an academic author and has worked at different universities in North America. She came into the spotlight in 2009, achieving great success in Spain thanks to her first novel, El tiempo entre costuras, published in English language as The Time in Between and The Seamstress, a historical espionage novel, which sold more than a million copies. It has already been translated into more than 25 different languages.
  
  María Dueñas is marrried with Manuel Ballesteros, also a professor, and they have two children, the family lives in Cartagena.

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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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  Hugo Gonçalves

  Hugo Gonçalves (1976) é autor de vários romances. Na Companhia das Letras, estão publicados "Filho do pai", "Revolução" (vencedor do Prémio Fernando Namora e semifinalista do Prémio Oceanos), "Deus Pátria Família" (semifinalista do prémio Oceanos), "Filho da mãe" (finalista dos prémios P.E.N. Clube e Fernando Namora), "O coração dos homens" e "Enquanto Lisboa arde o Rio de Janeiro pega fogo".
  
  Guionista da série "Rabo de Peixe" (Netflix), foi correspondente de diversas publicações portuguesas em Nova Iorque, Madrid e no Rio de Janeiro, cidade onde trabalhou como editor literário.
  
  Jornalista premiado e cronista, é um dos criadores do podcast Sem barbas na língua.

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  Robert Bryndza

  Robert Bryndza is an international bestselling author, best known for his page-turning crime and thriller novels, which have sold over seven million copies.
  
  His crime debut, The Girl in the Ice was released in February 2016, introducing Detective Chief Inspector Erika Foster. Within five months it sold one million copies, reaching number one in the Amazon UK, USA and Australian charts. To date, The Girl in the Ice has sold over 1.5 million copies in the English language and has been sold into translation in 30 countries. It was nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award for Mystery & Thriller (2016), the Grand prix des lectrices de Elle in France (2018), and it won two reader voted awards, The Thrillzone Awards best debut thriller in The Nethe

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  Jessie Burton

  Jessie Burton studied at Oxford University and the Central School of Speech and Drama, where she appeared in productions of The House of Bernarda Alba, Othello, Play and Macbeth. In April 2013 her first novel, The Miniaturist, was sold at an 11-publisher auction at the London Book Fair, and went on to sell in 29 other countries around the world. It was published by Picador in the UK and Holland in July 2014, and the USA in August 2014, with other translations to follow. Radio 4 commissioned it as their Book at Bedtime in July 2014. Her second book, The Muse, set in a dual time-frame, during the Spanish Civil War and 30 years later in 1960s London, was published in 2016. Jessie's first novel for children, The Restless Girls, will be publishe

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  Freida McFadden

  #1 New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Publisher's Weekly, and Amazon Charts bestselling author Freida McFadden is a practicing physician specializing in brain injury who has penned multiple Kindle bestselling psychological thrillers and medical humor novels. She lives with her family and possessed cat in a centuries-old three-story home overlooking the ocean, with staircases that creak and moan with each step, and nobody could hear you if you scream. Unless you scream really loudly, maybe.
  
  Note that I am maxed out on friends, so I apologize in advance that I can't friend anyone back!

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  Brit Bennett

  Born and raised in Southern California, Brit Bennett graduated from Stanford University and later earned her MFA in fiction at the University of Michigan, where she won a Hopwood Award in Graduate Short Fiction as well as the 2014 Hurston/Wright Award for College Writers. She is a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree, and her debut novel The Mothers was a New York Times bestseller. Her second novel The Vanishing Half was an instant #1 New York Times bestseller. Her essays have been featured in The New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review, and Jezebel.

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  Valérie Perrin

  Valérie Perrin est une romancière française. Elle est aussi photographe de plateau et scénariste auprès de son compagnon Claude Lelouch.
  Son premier roman, "Les oubliés du dimanche" (2015), a reçu de nombreux prix, dont celui de Lire Élire 2016 et de Poulet-Malassis 2016. Après son succès en France, il sort en Italie en septembre 2016 et en Allemagne début 2017.
  En 2018, elle a reçu le prix Maison de la Presse pour son deuxième roman "Changer l'eau des fleurs" (Albin Michel, 2018).

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  Maria Francisca Gama

  Maria Francisca Gama nasceu em Leiria em 1997.
  Aos 17 anos, mudou-se para Lisboa e formou-se em Direito, pela Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa.
  Trabalhou num escritório de advogados e, mais tarde, numa agência de comunicação.
  Atualmente divide o seu tempo entre a escrita e a leitura, o trabalho criativo por conta de outrem e as explicações de língua portuguesa.

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  Susana Amaro Velho

  Susana Amaro Velho é licenciada em Jornalismo e Solicitadoria. A leitura e a escrita são as suas grandes paixões e a sua vida mudou quando decidiu escrever para ser lida e não apenas para si. Afinal, foi John Lennon quem disse: «Um sonho que sonhes sozinho é apenas um sonho. Um sonho que sonhes em conjunto com outros é realidade.»
  
  É viciada em salame de chocolate, não passa sem café e odeia azeitonas. Nunca sai de casa sem um livro na mala e tem um caderno na mesa de cabeceira.
  
  Vive em Mafra com o marido e os três filhos.
  
  Tem quatro livros publicados e um quinto em co-autoria.
  

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