Olinda Beja
Com apenas dois anos deixou as ilhas maravilhosas e passou a viver do outro lado do mar, em terras frias da Beira Alta, Portugal. Licenciada em Línguas e Literaturas Modernas (Português/Francês) pela Universidade do Porto, Olinda Beja é docente do Ensino Secundário desde 1976. Ensina também Língua e Cultura Portuguesa na Suíça, é assessora cultural da Embaixada de São Tomé e Príncipe e dinamizadora cultural.
Foi vencedora em 2013 do prémio literário Francisco José Tenreiro prémio este atribuído à obra A Sombra do Ocá.
Em 2015 o livro da sua autoria Um Grão de Café entrou para o Plano Nacional de Leitura de Portugal.
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In Sacramento, she attended primary school in a Spiritualist College, which had a mission aimed at poor children of the town, with the help of influential people. Carolina studied just over two years but learned to read and write there. She later remembered reading posters outside movie theaters and realizing that reading was not just something done in school, but a skill that could be used everywhere. All her reading and writing was based on this short time of formal education. She quit sch -
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Ms. de Céspedes was the daughter of Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y Quesada (a President of Cuba) and his Italian wife, Laura Bertini y Alessandri. Her grandfather was Carlos Manuel de Céspedes and a distant cousin was Perucho Figueredo. She was married to Francesco Bounous of the Italian foreign service
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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 -
Tsitsi Dangarembga
Spent part of her childhood in England. She began her education there, but concluded her A-levels in a missionary school back home, in the town of Mutare. She later studied medicine at Cambridge University, but became homesick and returned home as Zimbabwe's black-majority rule began in 1980.
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She took up psychology at the University of Zimbabwe, of whose drama group she was a member. She also held down a two-year job as a copywriter at a marketing agency. This early writing experience gave her an avenue for expression: she wrote numerous plays, such as The Lost of the Soil, and then joined the theatre group Zambuko, and participated in the production of two plays, Katshaa and Mavambo.
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Herta Müller
Herta Müller was born in Niţchidorf, Timiş County, Romania, the daughter of Swabian farmers. Her family was part of Romania's German minority and her mother was deported to a labour camp in the Soviet Union after World War II.
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She read German studies and Romanian literature at Timişoara University. In 1976, Müller began working as a translator for an engineering company, but in 1979 was dismissed for her refusal to cooperate with the Securitate, the Communist regime's secret police. Initially, she made a living by teaching kindergarten and giving private German lessons.
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Graciliano Ramos
Graciliano Ramos was widely considered one of the most important Brazilian authors of the 20th century. He was a seminal voice in the literary "regionalism" movement.
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As a child Ramos lived in many cities of Northeastern Brazil, stricken by poverty and severe weather conditions (droughts). After high-school, Graciliano went to Rio de Janeiro where he worked as a journalist. In 1915 he traveled to Palmeira dos Indios, state of Alagoas, to live with his father and in 1927 he was elected mayor.
In 1933 he published his first book, Caetés. A few years later he was jailed by the Getúlio Vargas government, on a charge that was never made clear. His experiences in jail would become a unique personal deposition, Memórias do Cárcere.
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Marcelo Rubens Paiva
Escritor, dramaturgo e jornalista, estudou na Escola de Comunicações e Artes da USP, freqüentou o mestrado de Teoria Literária da Unicamp e o King Fellow Program da Universidade de Stanford, na Califórnia.
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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). -
Conceição Evaristo
Conceição Evaristo was born in a slum in the south of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais / Brazil. She had to reconcile her studies with work as a domestic worker, until she completed her first years of study in 1971, at the age of 25. She then moved to Rio de Janeiro, where she passed a public competition for teaching and graduated in Letters at UFRJ.
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In the 1980s, she contacted Grupo Quilombhoje. She debuted in literature in 1990, with works published in the series Cadernos Negros, published by the organization.
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Patrícia Reis
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Escreveu a curta biografia de Vasco Santana e o romance fotográfico Beija-me (2006), em co-autoria com João Vilhena, a novela Cruz das Almas (2004) e os romances Amor em Segunda Mão (2006), -
Nísia Floresta
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Primeira na educação feminista no Brasil, com protagonismo nas letras, no jornalismo e nos movimentos sociais. Defensora de ideais abolicionistas, republicanos e principalmente feministas, de consciência antecipadora para sua época, influenciou a prática educacional brasileira, rompendo limites do lugar social destinado à mulher.
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Kim Thúy
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Her debut novel Ru won the Governor General's Award for French language fiction at the 2010 Governor General's Awards. An English edition, translated by Sheila Fischman, was published in 2012 and was a shortlisted nominee for the 2012 Scotiabank Giller Prize.
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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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Socorro Acioli (Fortaleza, 24 de fevereiro de 1975) é uma escritora brasileira, formada em Comunicação Social com habilitação em jornalismo, mestre em Literatura Brasileira pela Universidade Federal do Ceará e Doutoranda em Literatura Comparada pela Universidade Fede -
Ana Paula Maia
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During her adolescence she player at a punk rock band and studied piano. As a scriptwriter she took part in the script of the short film O entregador de pizza (2001), and along with Mauro Santa Cecilia and Ricardo Petraglia, she wrote the theatrical monologue O rei dos escombros assembled in 2003 by the Moacyr Chaves firm. She published her first novel under the title O habitante das falhas subterrâneas in 2003.
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Fernanda Trías is a Uruguayan writer. She was born in Montevideo in 1976. She is the author of three novels and two short story collections. In 2004 she won a Unesco scholarship to write in Camac, an artists’ residence in Marnay-sur-Seine. She lived for five years in the medieval village of Provins and a few months in London. She spent one year in Berlin and two years in Buenos Aires. Trías earned a Master’s degree in creative writing from New York University and was disciple of the Uruguayan writer Mario Levrero. She integrated anthologies of new narrative in Colombia, the United States, Uruguay, Peru, Germany (Neu -
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Valérie Perrin
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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.
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Djaïli Amadou Amal entreprend des études supérieures en gestion commerciale. Mariée à dix-sept ans dans le cadre d'un mariage arrangé, Djaïli a connu tout ce qui rend si difficile la vie des femmes du Sahel. « Dans tout ce que je fais, j'essaie surtout de parler des discriminations faites aux femmes ; c'est mon cheval de bataille ! La presse camerounaise m'a même surnommée la "voix des sans voix" ! ». Djaïli Amadou Amal dénonce les pesanteurs sociales liées aux traditions et aux religions1. A travers l'écriture elle dénonce en somme les problèmes sociaux de sa régio -
Mbarek Ould Beyrouk
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He has written four books, including three novels: Et le ciel a oublié de pleuvoir (2006); Le Griot de l'émir, (2013) and The Desert and The Drum (Le Tambour des larmes, 2015).
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María Fernanda Ampuero
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Irene Solà
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Itamar Vieira Junior
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Stênio Gardel
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A palavra que resta é seu primeiro romance e foi escrito durante os Ateliês de Narrativa ministrados pela escritora Socorro Acioli em Fortaleza.