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Rui Ramos

RUI MANUEL MONTEIRO RAMOS nasceu a 22 de Maio de 1962, em Torres Vedras. É licenciado em História pela Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (1985) e doutorado em Ciência Política pela Universidade de Oxford (1997).
Ensinou na Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa (1985-1986), na Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (1998-2001), e na Universidade de Évora (2000). Actualmente, dirige seminários no Mestrado em Ciências Políticas da Universidade Católica (desde 2002) e no Mestrado em Política Comparada do Instituto de Ciências Sociais (desde 2003). É ainda Professor Convidado do Instituto de Estudos Políticos da Universidade Católica Portuguesa e Membro do Conselho de Curadores da Fundação Luso-Americana

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Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator regarded as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature. His best-known works, Ficciones (transl. Fictions) and El Aleph (transl. The Aleph), published in the 1940s, are collections of short stories exploring motifs such as dreams, labyrinths, chance, infinity, archives, mirrors, fictional writers and mythology. Borges's works have contributed to philosophical literature and the fantasy genre, and have had a major influence on the magic realist movement in 20th century Latin American literature.
Born in Buenos Aires, Borges later moved with his family to Switzerland in 1914, where he studied at the Collège de Genèv

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Peter Handke

Peter Handke (* 6. Dezember 1942 in Griffen, Kärnten) ist ein österreichischer Schriftsteller und Übersetzer.

Peter Handke is an Avant-garde Austrian novelist and playwright. His body of work has been awarded numerous literary prizes, including the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2019. He has also collaborated with German director Wim Wenders, writing the script for The Wrong Move and co-writing the screenplay for Wings of Desire.

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Herman Melville

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Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick (1851); Typee (1846), a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia; and Billy Budd, Sailor, a posthumously published novella. At the time of his death, Melville was no longer well known to the public, but the 1919 centennial of his birth was the starting point of a Melville revival. Moby-Dick eventually would be considered one of the great American novels.
Melville was born in New York City, the third child of a prosperous merchant whose death in 1832 left the family in dire financial straits. He took to sea in 1839 as a common sailor on a mer

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Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British novelist and story writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language and, although he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he became a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. He wrote novels and stories, many in nautical settings, that depict crises of human individuality in the midst of what he saw as an indifferent, inscrutable, and amoral world.
Conrad is considered a literary impressionist by some and an early modernist by others, though his works also contain elements of 19th-century realism. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters, as in Lord Jim, for example, have influenced numerous authors. Many dramatic fi

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Ken Follett

Ken Follett is one of the world’s most successful authors. Over 170 million copies of the 36 books he has written have been sold in over 80 countries and in 33 languages.

Born on June 5th, 1949 in Cardiff, Wales, the son of a tax inspector, Ken was educated at state schools and went on to graduate from University College, London, with an Honours degree in Philosophy – later to be made a Fellow of the College in 1995.

He started his career as a reporter, first with his hometown newspaper the South Wales Echo and then with the London Evening News. Subsequently, he worked for a small London publishing house, Everest Books, eventually becoming Deputy Managing Director.

Ken’s first major success came with the publication of Eye of the Needle in 197

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Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and his criminal conviction for gross indecency for homosexual acts.
Wilde's parents were Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. In his youth, Wilde learned to speak fluent French and German. At university, he read Greats; he demonstrated himself to be an exceptional classicist, first at Trinity College Dublin, then at Magdalen College, Oxford. He became associated with the emerging philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and Joh

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Ryszard Kapuściński

Ryszard Kapuściński debuted as a poet in Dziś i jutro at the age of 17 and has been a journalist, writer, and publicist. In 1964 he was appointed to the Polish Press Agency and began traveling around the developing world and reporting on wars, coups and revolutions in Asia, the Americas, and Europe; he lived through twenty-seven revolutions and coups, was jailed forty times, and survived four death sentences. During some of this time he also worked for the Polish Secret Service, although little is known of his role.

See also Ryszard Kapuściński Prize

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Guy Debord

Guy Ernest Debord was a French theorist, writer, filmmaker, hypergraphist and founding member of the groups Lettrist International and Situationist International. In broad terms, Debord's theories attempted to account for the spiritually debilitating modernization of the private and public spheres of everyday life by economic forces during the post-WWII modernization of Europe. Alienation, Debord postulated, could be accounted for by the invasive forces of the 'spectacle'—"a social relation between people that is mediated by images." Central to this school of thought was the claim that alienation is more than an emotive description or an aspect of individual psychology; rather, it is a consequence of the mercantile form of social organizati

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Thomas Mann

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Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and Nobel Prize laureate in 1929, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Goethe, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer. His older brother was the radical writer Heinrich Mann, and three of his six children, Erika Mann, Klaus Mann and Golo Mann, also became important

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Machado de Assis

Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, often known as Machado de Assis, Machado, or Bruxo do Cosme Velho, (June 21, 1839, Rio de Janeiro—September 29, 1908, Rio de Janeiro) was a Brazilian novelist, poet, playwright and short story writer. He is widely regarded as the most important writer of Brazilian literature. However, he did not gain widespread popularity outside Brazil in his own lifetime.
Machado's works had a great influence on Brazilian literary schools of the late 19th century and 20th century. José Saramago, Carlos Fuentes, Susan Sontag and Harold Bloom are among his admirers and Bloom calls him "the supreme black literary artist to date."

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Bohumil Hrabal

Born in Brno-Židenice, Moravia, he lived briefly in Polná, but was raised in the Nymburk brewery as the manager's stepson.

Hrabal received a Law degree from Prague's Charles University, and lived in the city from the late 1940s on.

He worked as a manual laborer alongside Vladimír Boudník in the Kladno ironworks in the 1950s, an experience which inspired the "hyper-realist" texts he was writing at the time.

His best known novels were Closely Watched Trains (1965) and I Served the King of England. In 1965 he bought a cottage in Kersko, which he used to visit till the end of his life, and where he kept cats ("kočenky").

He was a great storyteller; his popular pub was At the Golden Tiger (U zlatého tygra) on Husova Street in Prague, where he met

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Leo Tolstoy

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Лев Николаевич Толстой; most appropriately used Liev Tolstoy; commonly Leo Tolstoy in Anglophone countries) was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist fiction. Many consider Tolstoy to have been one of the world's greatest novelists. Tolstoy is equally known for his complicated and paradoxical persona and for his extreme moralistic and ascetic views, which he adopted after a moral crisis and spiritual awakening in the 1870s, after which he also became noted as a moral thinker and soc

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Eugénio de Andrade

The Portuguese poet Eugénio de Andrade, pseudonym of José Fontinhas, is revered as one of the leading names in contemporary Portuguese poetry.
His poetry is most striking for the depth of his short poems. One of Eugénio de Andrade's most known poems is his Poem to Mother.
In 2001, he received the Portuguese award Prémio Camões.

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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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Stieg Larsson

Stieg Larsson (born as Karl Stig-Erland Larsson) was a Swedish journalist and writer who passed away in 2004.

As a journalist and editor of the magazine Expo , Larsson was active in documenting and exposing Swedish extreme right and racist organisations. When he died at the age of 50, Larsson left three unpublished thrillers and unfinished manuscripts for more. The first three books ( The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo , The Girl Who Played With Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest ) have since been printed as the Millenium series. These books are all bestsellers in Sweden and in several other countries, including the United States and Canada.

Witnessed a rape when he was 15, and was helpless to stop it. This event haun

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Vigdis Hjorth

Vigdis Hjorth (born 1959) is a Norwegian novelist. She grew up in Oslo, and has studied philosophy, literature and political science.

In 1983, she published her first novel, the children's book "Pelle-Ragnar i den gule gården" for which she received Norsk kulturråd's debut award. Her first book for an adult audience was "Drama med Hilde" (1987). "Om bare" from 2001 is considered her most important novel, and a roman à clef.

Hjorth has three children and lives in Asker.

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Domingos Amaral

Domingos Freitas do Amaral nasceu a 12 de Outubro de 1967, em Lisboa. Depois de se ter formado em Economia, pela Universidade Católica Portuguesa, e de ter feito um mestrado em Relações Internacionais, na Universidade de Colúmbia, em Nova Iorque, decidiu seguir a sua carreira como jornalista. Actualmente, é o director da revista Maxmen, desde o seu lançamento, em Março de 2001. Colabora também com o Diário Económico e a revista Grazia. Antes, trabalhou no jornal O Independente durante 11 anos, além de ter colaborado com outras publicações, como o Diário de Notícias, Grande Reportagem, City, Invista e Fortuna. Colaborou também com a Rádio Comercial e com a SIC. É casado, tem dois filhos - uma rapariga e um rapaz - e vive em Lisboa. Enquanto

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Carlos de Oliveira

Licenciou-se em Ciências Histórico-Filosóficas na Faculdade de Letras de Coimbra (1947) e foi um dos iniciadores do movimento neo-realista. Colaborou nas revistas Altitude, Seara Nova e Vértice (de que foi director). Poeta e romancista, estreou-se com o volume de poemas Turismo (1942) e o romance Casa da Duna (1943). Publicou depois os volumes de poemas Mãe Pobre (1945), Colheita Perdida (1948), Descida aos Infernos (1949), Terra de Harmonia (1950), Cantata (1960), entre outros, e compendiou a sua obra poética em Trabalho Poético (1977-78). Além de romances (Alcateia, 1944; Pequenos Burgueses, 1948; Uma Abelha na Chuva, 1953, e Finisterra, 1978), publicou o livro de crónicas O Aprendiz de Feiticeiro (1971). Foi condecorado pela Presidência

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António Mega Ferreira

ANTÓNIO MEGA FERREIRA nasceu em Lisboa, a 25 de Março de 1949. Estudou no Liceu Pedro Nunes e licenciou-se em Direito, pela Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa. Estudou Comunicação Social na Universidade de Manchester.

Iniciou-se no jornalismo em 1968 no Comércio do Funchal, tendo sido profissional a partir de 1975, no Jornal Novo, Expresso, ANOP e RTP, onde chefiou a redação do 2º canal e foi apresentador do Informação/2. Autor e apresentador de programas de televisão, foi ainda redator de O Jornal e chefe de redação do JL, Jornal de Letras, Artes e Ideias. Diretor Editorial do Círculo de Leitores entre 1986 e 1988, fundou e foi o primeiro diretor da revista Ler.

Membro da Comissão Nacional para as Comemorações dos Descobrimento

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Fernando Rosas

FERNANDO ROSAS nasceu em Lisboa, a 18 de Abril de 1946. Licenciado em Direito pela Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa (1969), mestre em História dos séculos XIX e XX (1986) e doutorado em História Económica e Social Contemporânea pela Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (1990).

Foi, entre 1996 e 2016, professor catedrático de História Contemporânea. Em 2019 tornou-se o primeiro professor emérito da NOVA/FCSH, distinção pelo seu percurso académico ímpar. Na mesma faculdade, foi Presidente do Instituto de História Contemporânea (1995-2012). Entre 1988 e 1995, integrou o conselho de redacção da revista Penélope – Fazer e Desfazer a História. Entre 1994 e 2007, dirigiu a revista História.

Desenvolv

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский (Russian)

Works, such as the novels Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880), of Russian writer Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky or Dostoevski combine religious mysticism with profound psychological insight.

Very influential writings of Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin included Problems of Dostoyevsky's Works (1929),

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky composed short stories, essays, and journals. His literature explores humans in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century and engages with a variety of philosophies and themes. People most acclaimed his Demons(1872) .

Many literary critics rate him among the greatest authors of worl

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Rui Ramos

RUI MANUEL MONTEIRO RAMOS nasceu a 22 de Maio de 1962, em Torres Vedras. É licenciado em História pela Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (1985) e doutorado em Ciência Política pela Universidade de Oxford (1997).
Ensinou na Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa (1985-1986), na Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (1998-2001), e na Universidade de Évora (2000). Actualmente, dirige seminários no Mestrado em Ciências Políticas da Universidade Católica (desde 2002) e no Mestrado em Política Comparada do Instituto de Ciências Sociais (desde 2003). É ainda Professor Convidado do Instituto de Estudos Políticos da Universidade Católica Portuguesa e Membro do Conselho de Curadores da Fundação Luso-Americana

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Sadegh Hedayat

Iranian author who introduced modernist techniques into Persian fiction. He is considered one of the greatest Iranian writers of the 20th century.

هدایت از پیشگامان داستان‌نویسی نوین ایران و از روشنفکران برجسته ایرانی بود. برترین اثر وی رمان بوف کور است که آن را جزو مشهورترین آثار ادبیات داستانی معاصر ایران دانسته‌اند. حجم آثار و مقالات نوشته شده درباره نوشته‌ها، نوع زندگی و خودکشی صادق هدایت بیانگر تأثیر ژرف او بر جریان روشنفکری ایران است. هرچند شهرت عام هدایت نویسندگی است، آثاری از نویسندگان بزرگ را نیز ترجمه کرده‌است. صادق هدایت در ۱۹ فروردین سال ۱۳۳۰ در پاریس خودکشی کرد. آرامگاه وی در گورستان پرلاشز پاریس واقع است

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Nuno Palma

Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics and the Director of the Arthur Lewis Lab for Comparative Development, University of Manchester. Research Fellow at Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa. Research Fellow at CEPR, London.

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António Mega Ferreira

ANTÓNIO MEGA FERREIRA nasceu em Lisboa, a 25 de Março de 1949. Estudou no Liceu Pedro Nunes e licenciou-se em Direito, pela Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa. Estudou Comunicação Social na Universidade de Manchester.

Iniciou-se no jornalismo em 1968 no Comércio do Funchal, tendo sido profissional a partir de 1975, no Jornal Novo, Expresso, ANOP e RTP, onde chefiou a redação do 2º canal e foi apresentador do Informação/2. Autor e apresentador de programas de televisão, foi ainda redator de O Jornal e chefe de redação do JL, Jornal de Letras, Artes e Ideias. Diretor Editorial do Círculo de Leitores entre 1986 e 1988, fundou e foi o primeiro diretor da revista Ler.

Membro da Comissão Nacional para as Comemorações dos Descobrimento

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Vasco Pulido Valente

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