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João Pedro Vala is a novelist, literary critic, translator and proofreader. He regularly collaborates with LER, Observador and Bam Bam Cinema. He published two novels: Grande Turismo (2022 – Finalist for the Eça de Queiroz Foundation Literary Prize) and Campo Pequeno (2024, Winner of the first edition of Prémio Wook Novos Autores), as well as […]
Born in Istanbul to Iranian parents, Solmaz Sharif is the author of Customs (Graywolf Press, 2022) and Look (Graywolf Press, 2016), a finalist for the National Book Award. She holds degrees from U.C. Berkeley, where she studied and taught with June Jordan’s Poetry for the People, and New York University. Her work has appeared in Harper’s, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, The […]
Novuyo Rosa Tshuma’s first novel, House of Stone (W. W. Norton 2019), won the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award and the Bulawayo Arts Award for Outstanding Fiction, and was listed for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Balcones Fiction Prize and the Rathbones Folio Prize. Tshuma has lectured on House of Stone at […]
Jamel Brinkley is the author of Witness: Stories (2023, Farrar, Straus and Giroux/4th Estate), a finalist for the Kirkus Prize in Fiction, and A Lucky Man: Stories (2018, Graywolf Press), which was a finalist for the National Book Award, the Story Prize, the John Leonard Prize, the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy […]
Diana Khoi Nguyen is the author of Root Fractures and Ghost Of, a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the 2019 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. She is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and her video work has been exhibited at ICA Pittsburgh. A Kundiman and MacDowell fellow, and member of […]
Mia Couto, born in Beira/Mozambique in 1955, is among the most prominent writers in Portuguese-speaking Africa. After studying medicine and biology in Maputo, he worked as a journalist. Besides writing, he is now a biologist and teaches at the Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo. In 2013, Mia Couto was awarded the Camões Prize for Literature 2013 and the prestigious Neustadt International […]
Inquisitive by nature in her words and her choices, a lover of freedom of thought and feeling, Alice Neto de Sousa is, among other crafs, a Portuguese poet with roots in Angola. In 2022, she was distinguished by Bantumen as one of the one hundred most influential black personalities in the lusophone world.Invited to the […]
Gisela Casimiro is a Portuguese-Guinean writer, artist, performer, translator and activist. She is the author of “Erosão” (poetry), “Giz” (poetry), “Casa com Árvores Dentro” and “Vida: Uma Aplicação” (theatre plays), Estendais (nonfiction), Privilégio Negro ( upcoming antiracist manual) and “Recursos Humanos” (tv episode for the upcoming series “Novas Narrativas de Caça”). She translated Audre Lorde’s […]
António Pedrosa is a photographer based in Porto, Portugal, whose work primarily focuses on documentary photography, exploring themes of social inequality and the relationship with the territory. In 2014, he founded COLECTIVO, a platform dedicated to experimental approaches in documentary photography. His projects enjoy frequent publication in international magazines and newspapers, and he has received […]
Margarida Vale de Gato translates, writes, and teaches Translation and US Literature in Universidade de Lisboa, School of Arts and Humanities, where she coordinates the major and minor in American Studies. She is also a researcher at the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies, and her academic work is centered on Translation, Luso-American Studies, […]