Miguel Real

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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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  Isabel Allende

  Isabel Allende Llona is a Chilean-American novelist. Allende, who writes in the "magic realism" tradition, is considered one of the first successful women novelists in Latin America. She has written novels based in part on her own experiences, often focusing on the experiences of women, weaving myth and realism together. She has lectured and done extensive book tours and has taught literature at several US colleges. She currently resides in California with her husband. Allende adopted U.S. citizenship in 2003.
  
  

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  Haruki Murakami

  Haruki Murakami (村上春樹) is a Japanese writer. His novels, essays, and short stories have been best-sellers in Japan and internationally, with his work translated into 50 languages and having sold millions of copies outside Japan. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the Gunzo Prize for New Writers, the World Fantasy Award, the Tanizaki Prize, Yomiuri Prize for Literature, the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, the Noma Literary Prize, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Kiriyama Prize for Fiction, the Goodreads Choice Awards for Best Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize, and the Princess of Asturias Awards.
  Growing up in Ashiya, near Kobe before moving to Tokyo to attend Waseda University, he published his first novel Hear the

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  Emily Brontë

  Emily Brontë was an English novelist and poet whose singular contribution to literature, Wuthering Heights, is now celebrated as one of the most powerful and original novels in the English language. Born into the remarkable Brontë family on 30 July 1818 in Thornton, Yorkshire, she was the fifth of six children of Maria Branwell and Patrick Brontë, an Irish clergyman. Her early life was marked by both intellectual curiosity and profound loss. After the death of her mother in 1821 and the subsequent deaths of her two eldest sisters in 1825, Emily and her surviving siblings— Charlotte, Anne, and Branwell—were raised in relative seclusion in the moorland village of Haworth, where their imaginations flourished in a household shaped by books,

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  Henry David Thoreau

  Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau) was an American author, naturalist, transcendentalist, tax resister, development critic, philosopher, and abolitionist who is best known for Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay, Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state.
  
  Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry total over 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions were his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern day environmentalism.
  
  In 1817, Henry David Thoreau was born in Massachusetts. He graduated from

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  Gabriel García Márquez

  Gabriel José de la Concordia Garcí­a Márquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. Garcí­a Márquez, familiarly known as "Gabo" in his native country, was considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century. In 1982, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
  
  He studied at the University of Bogotá and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas, and New York. He wrote many acclaimed non-fiction works and short stories, but is best-known for his novels, such as One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). His works have achieved significant critical acclaim and widespr

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  Mia Couto

  Journalist and a biologist, his works in Portuguese have been published in more than 22 countries and have been widely translated. Couto was born António Emílio Leite Couto.
  He won the 2014 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 2013 Camões Prize for Literature, one of the most prestigious international awards honoring the work of Portuguese language writers (created in 1989 by Portugal and Brazil).
  
  An international jury at the Zimbabwe International Book Fair called his first novel, Terra Sonâmbula (Sleepwalking Land), "one of the best 12 African books of the 20th century."
  
  In April 2007, he became the first African author to win the prestigious Latin Union Award of Romanic Languages, which has been awarded annually in Italy sinc

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  Richard Zimler

  Richard Zimler was born in Roslyn Heights, New York, in 1956. He has a bachelor's degree from Duke University (1977) and a master's degree in journalism from Stanford. In 1990, he moved to Porto, Portugal, where he taught journalism for sixteen years at the university level. In 2017, the city of Porto awarded Zimler its highest distinction, the Medal of Honor. At the ceremony, Porto's mayor described the novelist as "A citizen of Porto who was born far away, who makes the city greater and grander... Zimler projects Porto out into the world and brings the rest of the world to us."
  
  Richard has published twelve novels over the last 22 years, and his works have been translated into 23 languages. His most recent novel is THE INCANDESCENT THREADS

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  Maryse Condé

  Maryse Condé was a Guadeloupean, French language author of historical fiction, best known for her novel Segu. Maryse Condé was born as Maryse Boucolon at Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, the youngest of eight children. In 1953, her parents sent her to study at Lycée Fénelon and Sorbonne in Paris, where she majored in English. In 1959, she married Mamadou Condé, an Guinean actor. After graduating, she taught in Guinea, Ghana, and Senegal. In 1981, she divorced, but the following year married Richard Philcox, English language translator of most of her novels.
  
  Condé's novels explore racial, gender, and cultural issues in a variety of historical eras and locales, including the Salem witch trials in I, Tituba: Black Witch of Salem and the 19th century

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  Christine Féret-Fleury

  Après des études de lettres et quelques années de recherche universitaire autour des rapports texte/musique dans l’opéra, Christine Féret-Fleury a fait ses gammes d’éditrice avec Pierre Marchand, aux éditions Gallimard.
  
  En 1996, elle publie son premier livre pour la jeunesse, Le Petit Tamour (Flammarion), suivi en 1999 par un roman « adulte », Les vagues sont douces comme des tigres (Arléa), couronné par le prix Antigone, puis par une soixantaine d’autres titres.
  
  Depuis 2001, elle se consacre principalement à l’écriture et assure la direction éditoriale des éditions Les 400 Coups France.

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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.
  
  João Tordo nasceu em Lisboa em 1975. Publicou vinte e um livros - divididos entre o romance, o policial e o ensaio - e recebeu diversos prémios, incluindo o Prémio Literário José Saramago 200

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  Alberto S. Santos

  ALBERTO S. SANTOS é licenciado em Direito, pela Universidade Católica Portuguesa. Foi Presidente da Câmara Municipal de Penafiel (2002-2013), Presidente da Comissão Científica da Rota do Românico/Centro de Estudos do Românico e do Território (2009-2025) e Comissário Cultural do Festival Literário "Escritaria" (2014-2025). Foi Secretário de Estado da Cultura dos XXIV e XXV Governos Constitucionais (2025-).
  Como escritor, afirmou-se essencialmente na ficção histórica, criada a partir de marcantes acontecimentos reais, mas pouco conhecidos do grande público. Publicou os romances A Escrava de Córdova (2008), A Profecia de Istambul (2010), O Segredo de Compostela (2013), Para lá de Bagdad (2016), Amantes de Buenos Aires (2019) e A Senhora das Índ

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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.
  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);

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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.
  
  "Apneia" was semifinalist of the Oceanos Prize and finalist of the Bertrand Prize for Best Portuguese Novel of the Year. In 2021, Tânia Ganho won a six-month literary grant from the Minist

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  Han Kang

  Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.
  
  소설가 한강
  
  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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  Kim Ho-yeon

  Associated Names:
  * 김호연 (Korean)
  * Kim Ho-yeon (English)
  
  Kim Ho-yeon (1974) is a writer and screenwriter.
  Winner of numerous literary awards, this novel was the best-selling novel in South Korea in 2021, surpassing one million copies sold.

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  Lea Ypi

  Lea Ypi is professor of political theory at London School of Economics, and adjunct associate professor of philosophy at the Australian National University, with expertise in Marxism and critical theory. A native of Albania, she has degrees in philosophy and in literature from the University of Rome La Sapienza, a Ph.D. from the European University Institute and was a post-doctoral prize research fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford University. Her latest book, a philosophical memoir entitled “Free: Coming of Age at the End of History,” published by Penguin Press in the UK and W. W. Norton & Company in North America, won the 2022 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and the Slightly Foxed First Biography Prize. She lives and works in Lo

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  Lily Graham

  Lily Graham grew up in South Africa and is a former journalist.
  
  As a child she dreamt of being an author, and had half-finished manuscripts bulging out of her desk drawers, but it wasn't until she reached her thirties that she finally finished one of them. Her first books were written for children, but when her mother was diagnosed with cancer she wrote a story to deal with the fear and pain she was going through - this became her first women's fiction novel, which was published by Bookouture (Hachette) in 2016.
  
  Since then she has written six novels, covering many topics, her first four novels were a blend of light hearted women's fiction and drama, but in recent years she has found her niche in historical fiction, after she wrote The Island

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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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  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE grew up in Nigeria. Her work has been translated into more than fifty-five languages. She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus, which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize; Half of a Yellow Sun, which was the recipient of the Women’s Prize for Fiction “Best of the Best” award; Americanah, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award; the story collection The Thing Around Your Neck and the essays We Should All Be Feminists and Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions. Her most recent work is an essay about losing her father, Notes on Grief, and Mama’s Sleeping Scarf, a children’s book written as Nwa Grace-James. A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she divides her time between the Unit

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  Miranda Cowley Heller

  Miranda Cowley Heller has worked as senior vice president and head of drama series at HBO, developing and overseeing such shows as The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, The Wire, Deadwood, and Big Love, among others. This is her first novel. She grew up spending summers on Cape Cod, and now lives in California.
  
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  Miguel d'Alte

  Miguel d'Alte was born in 1990 in Porto, Portugal.
  He lived in the Czech Republic, France, Angola, and Luxembourg. He pursues his great passions: literature and writing, as well as traveling, history, and rock 'n' roll. He has two dogs, Buk and Lolita.
  He studied fiction writing.
  He considers Charles Bukowski, Michel Houellebecq, and João Tordo as his main influences, and in the thriller genre, Joël Dicker and the nordic thrillers.
  In September 2022, he published his first novel, "O Lento Esquecimento de Ser", and, in October 2023, the cold case thriller "Os Crimes do Verão de 1985". "A Origem dos Dias" is his third book and was published September 2024.
  His next book is expected November 2025.
  
  Miguel d'Alte nasceu em 1990, no Porto, onde reside.

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