Mário-Henrique Leiria
É aluno da Escola Superior de Belas Artes, de onde é expulso em 1942 por motivos políticos. Participou nas actividades do Grupo Surrealista de Lisboa, entre 1949 e 1951 e em 1962, depois de ser preso pela PIDE aquando da "Operação Papagaio", instala-se no Brasil onde desenvolve várias actividades, como a de encenador e de director literário da Editora Samambaia. Voltaria em 1970. Publicou Contos do Gin-Tonic (1973), Novos Contos do Gin (1974), Imagem Devolvida, Conto de Natal para Crianças (1975) Casos de Direito Galáctico (1975), O Mundo Inquietante de Josela - fragmentos (1975) e Lisboa ao Voo do Pássaro (1979). Colaborou, com pequenos contos, no suplemento Fim-de-semana, do jornal República e no semanário humorístico, "Pé de Cabra". Chef
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J.M. Coetzee
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Coetzee’s breakthrough novel, Waiting for the Barbarians (1980), established him as a major literary voice, while Life & Times of Michael K (1983) won him the first of his two Booker Prizes. His best-known work, Disgrace (1999), a stark and unsettling examination of post-apartheid South Africa, secured his second Booker Pri -
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Plath attended Smith College, where she excelled academically but also struggled privately with depression. In 1953, she survived a suicide attempt, an experience she later fictionalized in her semi-autobiographical novel The Bell Jar. After recovering, she earned a Fulbright Scholarship to study -
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Sylvia Beach published the first edition of Ulysses of James Augustine Aloysius Joyce in 1922.
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Franz Kafka
Prague-born writer Franz Kafka wrote in German, and his stories, such as " The Metamorphosis " (1916), and posthumously published novels, including The Trial (1925), concern troubled individuals in a nightmarishly impersonal world.
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Jewish middle-class family of this major fiction writer of the 20th century spoke German. People consider his unique body of much incomplete writing, mainly published posthumously, among the most influential in European literature.
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Marcelo Rubens Paiva
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Publicou cinco romances: Feliz ano velho (1982, Prêmio Jabuti), Blecaute (1986), Uabrari (1990), Bala na agulha (1992) e Não és tu, Brasil (1996). Publicou também o livro de crônicas As Fêmeas (1994). Foi traduzido para o inglês, espanhol, francês, italiano, alemão e tcheco. Como dramaturgo, escreveu: 525 linhas (1989); O predador entra na sala (1997); Da boca pra fora; e aí, comeu? (1999, Prêmo Shell); Mais-que-imperfeito (2000); Closet Show (2001); e No retrovisor (2002). -
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Tolkien’s most popular works, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are set in Middle-earth, an imagined world with strangely familiar settings inhabited by ancient and extraordinary peoples. Through this secondary world Tolkien writes perceptively of universal human concerns – love and loss, -
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She was known for her treatment of gender (The Left Hand of Darkness, The Matter of Seggri), political systems (The Telling, The Dispossessed) and difference/otherness in any other form. Her interest in non-Western philosophies was reflected in works such as "Solitude" and The Telling but even more interesting are her imagined societies, often mi -
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É conselheiro cultural do Presidente de República, desde 2016. Foi subdirector e director interino da Cinemateca Portuguesa (2008-2010). Tem colaborado regularmente em projectos das Produções Fictícias (É a Cultura, Estúpido, O Eixo do Mal, O Inimigo Público, Canal Q). É um dos membros do Governo Sombra (na TSF, desde 2008, e também na TVI24, desde 2012).
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De seguida tornou-se argumentista da agência de criadores Produções Fictícias, tendo sido co-autor de vários programas de sucesso do humor português, entre eles Herman 98 e Herman 99 (RTP, 1998 - 1999), Herman SIC (2000 - 2005), O Programa da Maria (SIC, 2001), Hermandifusão Portuguesa (RDP, 1999 - 2001), as crónicas Felizes para Sempre, no semanário Expresso e As Crónicas de José Este -
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É autor de obras como O Meio Literário Português (1960-1999), Não é Fácil Dizer Bem, Puta que os Pariu! A Biografia de Luiz Pacheco ou O Que é um Escritor Maldito? Estudo de Sociologia da Literatura.
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Judith Teixeira
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