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Daniel Jonas was born in Porto where he currently lives and works as a teacher. Besides being a poet, he is also a dramatist and a translator. Poetry books published since 2000: Moça formosa, lençóis de veludo (2002), Os fantasmas inquilinos (2005), Sonótono (2007), Passageiro Frequente (2013), Nó (2014)
(Lisbon, 1956). The author of fifteen books of poetry, including Minha Senhora de Quê (1990), Coisas de Partir (1993), Às Vezes o Paraíso (1998), Imagias (2002), A Arte de ser Tigre (2003) A Génese do Amor (2005), Se Fosse Um Intervalo (Dom Quixote, 2009), or Vozes (Dom Quixote, 2010), Ana Luísa Amaral is a professor […]
David Caplan is the author of the poetry collection In the World He Created According to His Will (University of Georgia Press, 2010), as well as three books of criticism, most recently, Rhyme’s Challenge: Hip Hop, Poetry, and Contemporary Rhyming Culture (Oxford University Press, 2014). He received the 2012 Emily Clark Balch Prize for Poetry […]
Jacqueline Goldfinger is a Philadelphia based playwright and dramaturg who teaches playwriting at the University of Pennsylvania. She’s a co-Founder of The Foundry, an organization that supports the development of emerging playwrights. Her new play, Skin & Bone, will world premiere at Azuka Theatre this spring. Her play, Slip/Shot, won the 2012 Barrymore Award for […]
Moez Surani’s writing has been published widely and won numerous awards, including the Kingston Literary Award, the Antigonish Review‘s poetry prize and the prestigious Chalmers Arts Fellowship. His first poetry collection, Reticent Bodies, was described as “that rare book that has the power to be a lynchpin, a hinge in the history of Canadian poetry.” […]
Derek Nikitas is the author of the novels Pyres, nominated for an Edgar Award in 2008, and The Long Division, a Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2009. Both novels have also been nominated in France for the Elle magazine Reader’s Choice award. His short stories have been published in such journals as The […]
Antonio Lobo Antunes is the author of more than twenty books, including the novels The Return of the Caravels, Knowledge of Hell, The Natural Order of Things, The Inquisitors’ Manual, and What Can I Do When Everything’s On Fire? His book of newspaper “crónicas”—a free-form amalgam of essay and fiction—was published in the U.S. in […]
Brian Evenson is the author of ten books of fiction, most recently the limited edition novella Baby Leg, published by New York Tyrant Press in 2009. In 2009 he also published the novel Last Days (which won the American Library Association’s award for Best Horror Novel of 2009) and the story collection Fugue State, both […]
Teolinda Gersão is author of 19 books, translated in 20 countries. Some of her works have been adapted to theatre and cinema. She received some of the most important Portuguese literary awards and was writer-in-residence at the University of California, Barkeley. English translations: The Word Tree (novel) Dedalus Books, UK; City of Ulysses (novel) Dalkey […]
The Portuguese writer Lídia Jorge is one of the most representative writers of the post-Revolution Generation in Portugal. Her books have been published in many foreign countries where her work has been widely recognized. Lídia Jorge’s roots are in Algarve, Boliqueime, where she was born in 1946. After finishing high school there, she took a […]