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  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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  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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  George Orwell

  Eric Arthur Blair was an English novelist, poet, essayist, journalist and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell. His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to all totalitarianism (both fascism and stalinism), and support of democratic socialism.
  
  Orwell is best known for his allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), although his works also encompass literary criticism, poetry, fiction and polemical journalism. His non-fiction works, including The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), documenting his experience of working-class life in the industrial north of England, and Homage to Catalonia (1938), an account of his experiences soldiering for the Republican fact

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  Marjane Satrapi

  Marjane Satrapi (Persian: مرجان ساتراپی) is an Iranian-born French contemporary graphic novellist, illustrator, animated film director, and children's book author. Apart from her native tongue Persian, she speaks English, Swedish, German, French and Italian.
  
  Satrapi grew up in Tehran in a family which was involved with communist and socialist movements in Iran prior to the Iranian Revolution. She attended the Lycée Français there and witnessed, as a child, the growing suppression of civil liberties and the everyday-life consequences of Iranian politics, including the fall of the Shah, the early regime of Ruhollah Khomeini, and the first years of the Iran-Iraq War. She experienced an Iraqi air raid and Scud missile attacks on Tehran. Accordin

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  Jean Giono

  Jean Giono, the only son of a cobbler and a laundress, was one of France’s greatest writers. His prodigious literary output included stories, essays, poetry, plays, film scripts, translations and over thirty novels, many of which have been translated into English.
  
  Giono was a pacifist, and was twice imprisoned in France at the outset and conclusion of World War II.
  
  He remained tied to Provence and Manosque, the little city where he was born in 1895 and, in 1970, died.
  
  Giono was awarded the Prix Bretano, the Prix de Monaco (for the most outstanding
  collected work by a French writer), the Légion d’Honneur, and he was
  a member of the Académie Goncourt.
  

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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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  Italo Calvino

  Italo Calvino was born in Cuba and grew up in Italy. He was a journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952-1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965), and the novels Invisible Cities (1972) and If On a Winter's Night a Traveler (1979).
  
  His style is not easy to classify; much of his writing has an air reminiscent to that of fantastical fairy tales (Our Ancestors, Cosmicomics), although sometimes his writing is more "realistic" and in the scenic mode of observation (Difficult Loves, for example). Some of his writing has been called postmodern, reflecting on literature and the act of reading, while some has been labeled magical realist, others fables, others simpl

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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.
  
  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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  José Cardoso Pires

  JOSÉ CARDOSO PIRES nasceu na em São João do Peso, concelho de Vila de Rei, distrito de Castelo Branco, a 2 de Outubro de 1925. Estudante na Faculdade de Ciências de Lisboa, trocou as matemáticas superiores pela marinha mercante. Entre 1969 e 1971, foi docente de Literatura Portuguesa e Brasileira no King’s College, em Londres. Foi director literário de editoras lisboetas e director-adjunto do Diário de Lisboa (1974-75). Estreou-se com Os Caminheiros e Outros Contos (1949) e obteve o Prémio Camilo Castelo Branco com o romance O Hóspede de Job (1964). Dentro do neo-realismo, retoma a tradição satírica setecentista. Entre outros, escreveu os romances O Delfim (1968), Dinossauro Excelentíssimo (1972), Balada da Praia dos Cães (1982, Prémio da A

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  Miguel Esteves Cardoso

  Miguel Esteves Cardoso is a Portuguese writer, translator, critic and journalist. He's a well known monarchist and conservative.
  
  Miguel was born in a middle class family in Lisbon. His father, Joaquim Carlos Esteves Cardoso, was Portuguese and his mother, Hazel Diana Smith, was English. He had a good education and the advantage of a bilingual and bicultural upbringing, helping him to develop an outsider's detachment from the culture of his birth country. In 1979, he graduated from Manchester University in political studies and four years later, in 1983, he received his doctorate in Political Philosophy. While there he made contact with some of the New Wave bands of the Factory records like Joy Division or New Order.
  
  In 1981 Cardoso became the

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  Ana Luísa Amaral

  ANA LUÍSA AMARAL nasceu em Lisboa, a 5 de Abril de 1956. Doutorada em Literatura Norte-Americana com uma tese sobre Emily Dickinson, ensinou Literatura Inglesa no Departamento de Estudos Anglo-Americanos da Faculdade de Letras do Porto. Autora de oito livros de poesia e dois livros infantis, está representada em diversas antologias portuguesas e estrangeiras e foi traduzida para várias línguas, como castelhano, inglês, francês, alemão, holandês, russo, búlgaro e croata. Faleceu a 6 de Agosto de 2022.

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  Patrícia Reis

  PATRÍCIA REIS nasceu em Lisboa, a 12 de Dezembro de 1970. Começou como jornalista n' O Independente aos dezassete anos. Passou pela revista Sábado, de que foi editora, fez um estágio em Nova Iorque na revista Time e, no regresso dos EUA, colaborou no Expresso, trabalhou nas revistas Marie Claire e Elle e nos «projectos especiais» do jornal Público. Em 1997 passou a colaborar com o atelier de Henrique Cayatte, na produção de conteúdos para a Expo' 98. Desta colaboração surgiu o Atelier 004 de que é directora e que, entre outros projectos, produz a Egoísta.
  
  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),

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  Dulce Maria Cardoso

  Dulce Maria Cardoso nasceu em Trás-os-Montes, em 1964, na mesma cama onde haviam nascido a mãe e a avó. Tem pena de não se lembrar da viagem no Vera Cruz para Angola. Da infância guarda a sombra generosa de uma mangueira que existia no quintal, o mar e o espaço que lhe moldou a alma. Regressou a Portugal na ponte aérea de 1975. Licenciou-se em Direito pela Faculdade de Direito de Lisboa, escreveu argumentos para cinema, gastou tempo em inutilidades. Também escreveu contos. Tem fé, uma família, um punhado de amigos, o Blui e o Clude. Continua a escrever e a prezar inutilidades. Vive em Lisboa.

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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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• Maria do Rosário Pedreira

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  Hergé

  Georges Prosper Remi (22 May 1907 – 3 March 1983), better known by the pen name Hergé, was a Belgian comics writer and artist.
  His best known and most substantial work is The Adventures of Tintin comic book series, which he wrote and illustrated from 1929 until his death in 1983, leaving the twenty-fourth Tintin adventure Tintin and Alph-Art unfinished. His work remains a strong influence on comics, particularly in Europe.
  
  "Hergé" is the pseudonym of George Remí, making a game with the initials of his name inverted. Throughout the evolution of his star character, Tintin, we can see the progress of this author: from the first titles marked by the ultraconservative doctrine of the director of the newspaper Le Petit Vingtième, to the breaking

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  Antonio Prata

  Escritor, roteirista e filho dos escritores Abandonou sucessivamente os cursos de Filosofia (na USP), Cinema (FAAP) e Ciências Sociais (PUC-SP). Mudou-se para o Rio de Janeiro, onde trabalhou como roteirista de telenovelas. Também trabalhou para a Editora Abril, colaborando com textos para a revista Capricho por seis anos. Foi um dos 16 participantes do projeto Amores Expressos, passando um mês em Xangai para escrever um romance. Atualmente é cronista d’ O Estado de São Paulo e mantém um blog no site do jornal. Obras: Adulterado (Moderna), Pernas da tia Corália (Objetiva), Estive pensando, (Marco Zero Editora), O inferno atrás da pia (Objetiva), Douglas e outras histórias (Azougue Editorial), Merreca christmas (Matrix Editora) e Meio intele

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  Adília Lopes

  "Adília Lopes da Silva and Maria José de Oliveira Viana Fidalgo are one and the same person. They are me. As poppy is a poppy. And many other names that I don’t know. Adília Lopes is water in gaseous state, Maria José is the same water in solid form. I'm a woman, I'm Portuguese, I’m from Lisbon, I’m a poet, I'm a linguist (we all are), I'm a physicist, I'm a librarian, I'm an archivist, I'm shortsighted, I was born on 20 April 1960, I'm single, I have no children, I'm catholic, I have brown eyes, I measure 1.56 m, now I weight 80 kg, I use the short hair since 1981, the hair is dark brown with many white hairs. (...) it's clear that the poet is always the idiot of the family, the crazy one".

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• Cláudia R. Sampaio

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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.
  
  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.

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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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• Gisela Casimiro

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  Poeta da Cidade

  POETA DA CIDADE é Pedro Freitas, um poeta, dizedor de poesia e produtor cultural de 26 anos. Iniciou o percurso artístico em 2014, no concurso da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian «Dá Voz à Letra» e, desde então, afirmou-se como um dos declamadores mais ouvidos em Portugal. Nas redes sociais, onde junta mais de 220 mil seguidores, partilha leituras de poesia, sessões de debate, painéis de conversa, conferências e excertos dos seus espetáculos ao vivo.
  
  Editou, de forma independente, em 2022, o seu primeiro livro de poesia — Ela, metafisicamente d’outro mundo —, que se tornou no título de poesia portuguesa mais vendido desse ano.
  Passa grande parte do ano em digressão nacional, com espetáculos que combinam poesia e música, atraindo centenas de espec

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• Martim Sousa Tavares

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• Luísa Sobral

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