Ondjaki
Ndalu de Almeida (born 1977) is a writer from Angola, writing under the pen name Ondjaki. He lives in Luanda, the capital of the country, and has written poetry, children's books, short stories, novels, drama and film scripts.
Ondjaki studied sociology at the University of Lisbon, and wrote his graduation paper about Angolan writer Luandino Vieira. His literary debut came in 2002 with the novella O Assobiador (The Whistler), which was followed up with the childhood memoir Bom dia camaradas (Good Morning, Comrades) in 2003. To date (2010) he has published four novels, three collections of short stories, two collections of poetry and three children's books. His books have been translated to French, Spanish, Italian, German, English, Chinese an
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Philip Milton Roth was an American novelist and short-story writer. Roth's fiction—often set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey—is known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosophically and formally blurring the distinction between reality and fiction, for its "sensual, ingenious style" and for its provocative explorations of American identity. He first gained attention with the 1959 short story collection Goodbye, Columbus, which won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. Ten years later, he published the bestseller Portnoy's Complaint. Nathan Zuckerman, Roth's literary alter ego, narrates several of his books. A fictionalized Philip Roth narrates some of his others, such as the alternate history The Plot Against A
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José Eduardo Agualusa
«José Eduardo Agualusa [Alves da Cunha] nasceu no Huambo, Angola, em 1960. Estudou Silvicultura e Agronomia em Lisboa, Portugal. Os seus livros estão traduzidos em 25 idiomas.
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Escreveu várias peças de teatro: "Geração W", "Aquela Mulher", "Chovem amores na Rua do Matador" e "A Caixa Preta", estas duas últimas juntamente com Mia Couto.
Beneficiou de três bolsas de criação literária: a primeira, concedida pelo Centro Nacional de Cultura em 1997 para escrever « Nação crioula », a segunda em 2000, concedida pela Fundação Oriente, que lhe permitiu visitar Goa durante 3 meses e na sequência da qual escreveu « Um estranho em Goa » e a terceira em 2001, concedida pela instituição alemã Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst. Graças a esta bolsa viveu -
Albert Cossery
Albert Cossery (November 3, 1913 – June 22, 2008) was an Egyptian-born French writer of Greek Orthodox Syrian and Lebanese descent, born in Cairo.
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Son of small property owners in Cairo, at the age of 17, inspired by reading Honoré de Balzac, Albert Cossery ( Arabic: البرت قصيري) emigrated to Paris. He came there to continue his studies which he never did devote himself to, writing and settled permanently in the French capital in 1945, where he lived until his death in 2008.
In 60 years he only wrote eight novels, in accordance with his philosophy of life in which "laziness" is not a vice but a form of contemplation and meditation. In his own words: "So much beauty in the world, so few eyes to see it." At the age of 27 he published his first -
Albert Villaró
Albert Villaró (Seu d'Urgell, Alt Urgell, 1964) és un escriptor urgellenc, de professió arxiver i arqueòleg, destacat sobretot en el camp de la novel·la històrica. Col·labora en les publicacions Segre i Diari d'Andorra.
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Ugo Bertotti
Ugo Bertotti was born in Trento, in 1954. He graduated at Fine Arts Academy of Brera, Milan. From Seventies he wrote and drew. His works have been translated in several countries. In 2012 he published the comic reportage “Femmes du Yémen” inside the French magazine XXI. In 2013 he published the graphic novel “Il mondo di Aisha”, Coconino Press, about the silent resistance of the women in Yemen. In 2016 his latest comic book “Vivere” was published too.
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Tânia Carneiro
Tânia Carneiro é psicóloga clínica, especialista em psicologia clínica e da saúde e em psicoterapia pela Ordem dos Psicólogos Portugueses. Grupanalista. Vice-Presidente da Zona Sul da Sociedade Portuguesa de Psicossomática. Sempre se interessou pela temática da vergonha mas, a vontade de explorar mais o tema de forma diferente esteve diretamente relacionada com episódios de vergonha da sua filha de seis anos. Como é que a posso ajudar? – pensou. O livro O Monstro da Vergonha foi a forma que encontrou para tentar minimizar os estragos que a vergonha provoca.
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Rui Zink
Rui Barreira Zink is a professor at New University of Lisbon, where he graduated in Portuguese Studies and obtained the PhD in Portuguese Literature. Reader of Portuguese at the University of Michigan (1989/90).
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Author of several books, among trials and fiction, the novel stresses Hotel Lusitano (1987), Apocalypse Nau (2000), The Substitute (1999) and The Surfers (2001), and the books of account the reality now Color (1988) and Spider-Man (1994), "The Anibaleitor" (2006). Cooperating with the press and made literary translation.
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Pierre Michon
Pierre Michon’s writing has received great acclaim in his native France; his work has been translated into a dozen languages. He was winner of the Prix France Culture in 1984 for his first book, Small Lives, the 1996 Prix de la Ville de Paris for his body of work, and the Grand Prix du Roman de l’Académie française. His works include Masters and Sons, The Origin of the World, and Rimbaud's Son.
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Péter Nádas
Hungarian novelist, essayist, and dramatist, a major central European literary figure. Nádas made his international breakthrough with the monumental novel A Book of Memories (1986), a psychological novel following the tradition of Proust, Thomas Mann, and magic realism.
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Péter Nádas was born in Budapest, as the son of a high-ranking party functionary. Nádas's grandfather, Moritz Grünfeld, changed his name into Hungarian, which was considered a scandal in the family. Nádas's youth was shadowed by the loss of his parents. Nádas's mother died of cancer when he was young and his father committed suicide. At the age of 16 his uncle gave him a camera, and after dropping out of school Nádas turned to photojournalism. During the late 1960s and early -
Philip Roth
Philip Milton Roth was an American novelist and short-story writer. Roth's fiction—often set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey—is known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosophically and formally blurring the distinction between reality and fiction, for its "sensual, ingenious style" and for its provocative explorations of American identity. He first gained attention with the 1959 short story collection Goodbye, Columbus, which won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. Ten years later, he published the bestseller Portnoy's Complaint. Nathan Zuckerman, Roth's literary alter ego, narrates several of his books. A fictionalized Philip Roth narrates some of his others, such as the alternate history The Plot Against A
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Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing was born into a colonial family. both of her parents were British: her father, who had been crippled in World War I, was a clerk in the Imperial Bank of Persia; her mother had been a nurse. In 1925, lured by the promise of getting rich through maize farming, the family moved to the British colony in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). Like other women writers from southern African who did not graduate from high school (such as Olive Schreiner and Nadine Gordimer), Lessing made herself into a self-educated intellectual.
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In 1937 she moved to Salisbury, where she worked as a telephone operator for a year. At nineteen, she married Frank Wisdom, and later had two children. A few years later, feeling trapped in a persona that she fear -
Pierre Michon
Pierre Michon’s writing has received great acclaim in his native France; his work has been translated into a dozen languages. He was winner of the Prix France Culture in 1984 for his first book, Small Lives, the 1996 Prix de la Ville de Paris for his body of work, and the Grand Prix du Roman de l’Académie française. His works include Masters and Sons, The Origin of the World, and Rimbaud's Son.
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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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Péter Nádas
Hungarian novelist, essayist, and dramatist, a major central European literary figure. Nádas made his international breakthrough with the monumental novel A Book of Memories (1986), a psychological novel following the tradition of Proust, Thomas Mann, and magic realism.
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Péter Nádas was born in Budapest, as the son of a high-ranking party functionary. Nádas's grandfather, Moritz Grünfeld, changed his name into Hungarian, which was considered a scandal in the family. Nádas's youth was shadowed by the loss of his parents. Nádas's mother died of cancer when he was young and his father committed suicide. At the age of 16 his uncle gave him a camera, and after dropping out of school Nádas turned to photojournalism. During the late 1960s and early -
Jáchym Topol
Jáchym Topol was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, to Josef Topol, Czech playwright, poet, and translator of Shakespeare, and Jiřina Topolová, daughter of the famous Czech Catholic writer Karel Schulz.
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Topol's writing began with lyrics for the rock band Psí vojáci, led by his younger brother, Filip, in the late '70s and early '80s. In 1982, he cofounded the samizdat magazine Violit, and in 1985 Revolver Revue, a samizdat review that specialized in modern Czech writing.
Because of his father's dissident activities, Topol was not allowed to go to university. After graduating from gymnasium he worked as a stoker, stocker, construction worker, and coal deliveryman. Several times he was imprisoned for short periods, both for his samizdat publishing -
Fabien Vehlmann
Usually uses the pseudonym Vehlmann
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Fabien Vehlmann est comme son héros : pétillant, engagé et plein d'humour.
Après avoir patiemment suivi les cours d'une école de commerce nantaise, Fabien Vehlmann réalise que sa voie est ailleurs. Bien décidé à se lancer dans la bande dessinée, il se consacre à l'écriture de manière intensive durant une année entière. Il empile les projets et inonde scrupuleusement la rédaction du journal Spirou. Sa ténacité est récompensée : il y fait ses débuts dans le courant de l'année 1998. Dans les pages du beau journal, il apprend son métier en scénarisant des animations, puis ses premières séries dont le fameux "Green Manor" avec Denis Bodart.
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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.
She holds a Master's degree in Brazilian Literature from PUC-Rio, and a PhD in Comparative Literature from Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF).
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Max Blecher
Blecher's father was a successful Jewish merchant and the owner of a porcelain shop. Blecher attended primary and secondary school in Roman, Romania. After receiving his baccalaureat, Blecher left for Paris to study medicine. Shortly thereafter, in 1928, he was diagnosed with spinal tuberculosis (Pott's disease) and forced to abandon his studies. He sought treatment at various sanatoriums: Berck-sur-Mer in France, Leysin in Switzerland and Tekirghiol in Romania.
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For the remaining ten years of his life, he was confined to his bed and practically immobilized by the disease. Despite his illness, he wrote and published his first piece in 1930, a short story called "Herrant" in Tudor Arghezi's literary magazine Bilete de papagal. He contributed -
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.
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"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 -
Afonso Cruz
Nasceu em 1971, na Figueira da Foz e estudou nas Belas Artes de Lisboa, no Instituto Superior de Artes Plásticas da Madeira e na António Arroio. É escritor, músico, cineasta e ilustrador.
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Escreveu seis livros: A Carne de Deus (Bertrand), Enciclopédia da Estória Universal (Quetzal - Grande Prémio de Conto Camilo Castelo Branco 2010), Os Livros Que Devoraram o Meu Pai (Caminho - Prémio Literário Maria Rosa Colaço 2009), A Contradição Humana (Caminho - Prémio Autores 2011 SPA/RTP; escolha White Ravens 2011; Menção Especial do Prémio Nacional de Ilustração 2011) e A Boneca de Kokoschka (Quetzal), O Pintor Debaixo do Lava-Loiças (Caminho). Participou ainda nos livros Almanaque do Dr. Thackery T. Lambshead de Doenças Excêntricas e Desacreditadas ( -
Isabela Figueiredo
Isabela Figueiredo nasceu em Lourenço Marques, Moçambique, hoje Maputo, em 1963. Após a independência de Moçambique, em 1975, rumou a Portugal, incorporando o contingente de retornados. Foi jornalista no Diário de Notícias e é professora de Português. Estudou Línguas e Literaturas Lusófonas, Sociologia das Religiões e Questões de Género. Publicou os seus primeiros textos no extinto suplemento DN Jovem, do Diário de Notícias, em 1983.
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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 -
Alice Zeniter
Alice Zeniter is a French novelist, translator, scriptwriter, dramatist and director.
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She has won a Prix Renaudot young adult award for her third novel, Juste avant l'Oubli, and a Prix Goncourt young adult for her fourth novel, L'Art de Perdre.
Zeniter published her first novel, Deux moins un égal zéro, at the age of 16. Her second novel, Jusque dans nos bras, was published in 2010 and translated in English as Take This Man.
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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".
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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.
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Maria Teresa Maia Gonzalez
Maria Teresa Maia Gonzalez nasceu em Coimbra, em 1958. É licenciada em Línguas e Literaturas Modernas – Variante de Estudos Franceses e Ingleses – pela Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa. Vive em Lisboa e tem como passatempo a pintura.
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Foi professora de Português, Inglês e Francês, no ensino particular e público, entre 1982 e 1997, em Alverca do Ribatejo, Manique e Lisboa.
Muito cedo sentiu despertar o gosto pelas histórias ouvidas e lidas em família. Por volta dos nove anos, começou a sentir o gosto pela escrita, escrevendo poemas e histórias com regularidade. Iniciou a sua carreira na escrita em 1989, quando ainda era professora.
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Kairi Look
Kairi Look on eesti kirjanik. Ta kirjutab lasteraamatuid ja proosat täiskasvanutele, novell "Relaps" on pälvinud Loomingu aastapreemia. Ta raamatuid on tõlgitud mh saksa, prantsuse, poola ja soome keelde. Ta on tõlkinud eesti keelde hollandi laste- ja noortekirjandust. Ta on ta Koolibri uue aabitsa autor.
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Kairi Look is an Estonian writer. She writes children's books and prose, and translates fiction from Dutch to Estonian. Many of her kidsbooks have been translated and awarded. She has received the annual prize of the literary magazine Looming for the best novella.
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Inga Gaile
Dzejniece un rakstniece. Dzimusi 1976. gadā Rīgā. Beigusi Rīgas Centra humanitāro ģimnāziju (1993), studējusi literatūras teoriju, vēsturi un kritiku, kā arī teātra, kino un TV dramaturģiju Latvijas Kultūras akadēmijā.
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Saņēmusi Klāva Elsberga prēmiju (1999), Annas Dagdas fonda balva (2004), Ojāra Vācieša prēmiju (2004, 2012), Dzejas dienu balvu (2007) un žurnāla "Latvju Teksti" balvu (2012). 2012. gadā saņēmusi Prozas lasījumu galveno balvu par stāstu "Piena ceļi". Kā arī Literatūras gada balvu par dzejoļu krājumu "Vai otrā grupa mani dzird?". Prozā debitējusi ar romānu "Stikli", kuram 2019. gadā sekoja "Skaistās". Ir sarakstījusi arī detektīvromānu "Neredzamie" un izdevniecībā Mansards izdots stāstu krājums "Piena ceļi".
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Leïla Slimani
Leïla Slimani is a French writer and journalist of Moroccan ancestry. In 2016 she was awarded the Prix Goncourt for her novel Chanson douce.
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Slimani was born in Rabat, Morocco and studied later political science and media studies in Paris. After that she temporarily considered a career as an actress and began to work as a journalist for the magazine Jeune Afrique. In 2014 she published her first novel Dans le jardin de l’ogre, which two years later was followed by the psychological thriller Chanson douce. The latter quickly turned into a bestseller with over 450,000 copies printed within a year even before the book was awarded the Prix Goncourt. -
Mariana Salomão Carrara
Mariana Salomão Carrara é paulistana, escritora e Defensora Pública, nascida em 1986. Tem publicados um livro de contos (Delicada uma de nós – Off-Flip, 2015), e os romances Idílico (EI, 2007), Fadas e copos no canto da casa (Quintal Edições, 2017), Se deus me chamar não vou (Editora nós, 2019, entre os 10 indicados ao Prêmio Jabuti 2020, em Romance Literário), “É sempre a hora da nossa morte amém” (Editora Nós, 2021, finalista do Prêmio São Paulo 2022 e entre os 10 indicados ao Jabuti 2022),”Não fossem as sílabas do sábado” (Todavia, junho/2022, Vencedor do Prêmio São Paulo 2023, Melhor Romance do Ano) e A árvore mais sozinha do mundo (Todavia, agosto/2024). Por contos e poemas avulsos, recebeu na juventude prêmios nacionais como Off-flip
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Inga Gaile
Dzejniece un rakstniece. Dzimusi 1976. gadā Rīgā. Beigusi Rīgas Centra humanitāro ģimnāziju (1993), studējusi literatūras teoriju, vēsturi un kritiku, kā arī teātra, kino un TV dramaturģiju Latvijas Kultūras akadēmijā.
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Saņēmusi Klāva Elsberga prēmiju (1999), Annas Dagdas fonda balva (2004), Ojāra Vācieša prēmiju (2004, 2012), Dzejas dienu balvu (2007) un žurnāla "Latvju Teksti" balvu (2012). 2012. gadā saņēmusi Prozas lasījumu galveno balvu par stāstu "Piena ceļi". Kā arī Literatūras gada balvu par dzejoļu krājumu "Vai otrā grupa mani dzird?". Prozā debitējusi ar romānu "Stikli", kuram 2019. gadā sekoja "Skaistās". Ir sarakstījusi arī detektīvromānu "Neredzamie" un izdevniecībā Mansards izdots stāstu krājums "Piena ceļi".
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Bora Ćosić
Bora Ćosić is a Serbian, Croatian and Yugoslav novelist, essayist, translator and opinionated intellectual.
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He was born in Zagreb in 1932, He lived most of his life in Belgrade until 1991, when he moved to Rovinj and later to Berlin, where he currently resides. A recipient of multiple awards, including the Nin Prize, he is known for his satirical and humorous style, exemplified in his cult novel Uloga moje porodice u svetskoj revoluciji (t. My Family's Role in the World Revolution). Ćosić is recognized as an important voice from the former Yugoslavia. -
Afonso Reis Cabral
Afonso Reis Cabral nasceu em 1990. Aos 15 anos, publicou o livro de poesia Condensação. É licenciado em Estudos Portugueses e Lusófonos pela NOVA FCSH, fez mestrado na mesma área e tem uma pós-graduação em Escrita de Ficção. Foi duas vezes à Alemanha de camião TIR em busca de uma história, a primeira das quais aos 13 anos. Trabalhou numa vacaria, num escritório de turismo e num alfarrabista. Em 2014, ganhou o Prémio LeYa com o romance O Meu Irmão. Em 2017, foi-lhe atribuído o Prémio Europa David Mourão-Ferreira na categoria de Promessa, em 2018 o Prémio Novos na categoria de Literatura e em 2019 o Prémio GQ MOTY na categoria de Literatura. No final de 2018, publicou o seu segundo romance, Pão de Açúcar, com forte acolhimento por parte da cr
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Zinzi Clemmons
Zinzi Clemmons was raised in Philadelphia by a South African mother and an American father. A graduate of Brown and Columbia, her writing has appeared in Zoetrope: All-Story, The Paris Review Daily, Transition, and The Common.
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She is a co-founder and former publisher of Apogee Journal, a contributing editor to Literary Hub, and deputy editor for Phoneme Media.
She has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Bread Loaf, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the Kimbilio Center for African American Fiction.
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Manuel Tiago
Pseudónimo literário de Álvaro Cunhal, que com ele assinou obras de ficção, designadamente Até Amanhã, Camaradas (1975), Cinco Dias, Cinco Noites (1975) e A Estrela de Seis Pontas (1994, adaptado para cinema por José Fonseca e Costa). A verdadeira identidade de Manuel Tiago só foi confirmada aquando da publicação deste último romance. Durante anos, muito se especulou acerca da autoria das obras.
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António Jorge Gonçalves
I was born in Lisbon (Portugal), in 1964. Graduated in Graphic Design from the Lisbon School of Fine Arts and took a Master’s degree in Theatre Design at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. I have teached at IADE and RESTART art schools. Storytelling through images is my passion: since ’78 I have been publishing Graphic Novels in books, newspapers and magazines in Portugal, Spain, France and Italy.
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Novuyo Rosa Tshuma
Novuyo Rosa Tshuma (born 28 January 1988) is a Zimbabwean writer. She is best known for her 2013 debut collection titled Shadows, a novella and short story book.
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Tshuma was born and grew up in Bulawayo, a major city in Zimbabwe. She completed her high-school education at Girls' College, Bulawayo; where she studied Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and French for her A Levels. She is an alumna of the University of Witwatersrand, where she studied Economics and Finance. In 2009, her short story You in Paradise won the Intwasa Short Story Competition (now Yvonne Vera Award) for short fiction before she shot to recognition in 2013 following the release of her collection Shadows, which was published by Kwela Books. Shadows was nominated at the 2014 -
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Miguel Torga
Miguel Torga, pseudonym of Adolfo Correia da Rocha was one of the greatest Portuguese writers of the 20th century. He wrote poetry, short stories, theater and a 16 volume diary.
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He was born in a village in Trás-os-Montes, northern Portugal, to small-time farmer parents. After a short spell as student in a catholic seminary in Lamego, also in Trás-os-Montes, in 1920 his father sent him to Brazil where he worked on the coffee plantation of an uncle who, finding him to be a clever student, paid his high school there and afterwards his medicine graduation (1933) at the University of Coimbra, in Portugal (to where he returns in 1925).
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Justin Petrone
A native New Yorker, writer and journalist Justin Petrone has been living in Northern Europe for more than 20 years. With a dozen books to his name and hundreds of articles, he specializes in travel memoirs and experimental dream fiction. His work has appeared in Standart and Edasi.
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T.V. Bulpin
Thomas Victor Bulpin wrote 29 books and over 2000 booklets, pamphlets, newspapers and magazine features, and travel videos, becoming the Doyen of African travel writers and a legend in his own lifetime.
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José Luandino Vieira
Passou toda a infância e juventude em Luanda, onde fez o ensino secundário. Exerceu diversas profissões até ser preso em 1959, sendo depois libertado. Posteriormente, em 1961, foi de novo preso e condenado a 14 anos de prisão e medidas de segurança. Transferido, em 1964, para o campo de concentração do Tarrafal, onde passou oito anos, foi libertado em 1972, em regime de residência vigiada em Lisboa. Iniciou então a publicação da sua obra, escrita, na grande maioria, nas diversas prisões por onde passou.
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Depois da independência angolana, foi nomeado para diversos cargos: organizou e dirigiu a Televisão Popular de Angola de 1975 a 1978; dirigiu o Departamento de Orientação Revolucionária do MPLA até 1979; organizou e dirigiu o Instituto Angola -
Mīrābāī
Meera [(ca. 1498-1547)], also known as Mira Bai, was a 16th century Hindu mystic poetess and devotee of Krishna. She is celebrated as a poet and has been definitively claimed by the North Indian Hindu tradition of Bhakti saints.
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Meera was born in a royal family of Rajasthan, and her education included music, religion, politics and government. She married Bhojraj the crown prince of Mewar in 1516, her husband was wounded in 1518 and died in 1521 after a Hindu-Muslim battle, her own father died in a war with Babur's army in 1527, and little else is known about her life with any certainty. She is mentioned in Bhaktamal, confirming that she was widely known and a cherished figure in the Indian bhakti movement culture by about 1600 CE. Most legen