Rui Cardoso Martins (Portalegre, Portugal, 1967) is a writer, scriptwriter, and playwright, and the co-creator and co-writer, with director Tiago Guedes, of A Herdade/The Domain (Golden Lion candidate in Venice 2019 Film Festival, Toronto TIFF). He also worked the script of director João Canijo diptic Living Bad/Bad Living (Silver Bear winner, Berlinale 2023). He is a two-time winner of the […]

Ana Paula Tavares has published a number of works, including Ritos de Passagem (1985), O Sangue da Buganvília (1998, republished in 2023), Ex-votos (Votive offerings) (2003) and A Cabeça de Salomé (The Head of Salome) (2004). Her latest book of poems is Manual para amantes desesperados (2007) and her collected poetry has been published in […]

Ana Margarida de Carvalho was born in Lisbon, where she graduated in law and worked as a journalist for 25 years. Her first novel Que Importa a Fúria do Mar (Teorema) was praised by critics, shortlisted for a number of prizes and awarded the Grande Prémio de Romance e Novela APE/DGLAB in 2013. Her second novel, Não Se […]

Ondjaki is an Angolan author of numerous novels, poetry books and children’s books. His work has been translated into several languages and awarded literary prizes, including the prestigious Prix Littérature-Monde 2016, the Jabuti Prize and the Saramago Prize (2013) for Os Transparentes (Transparent City).

Yara Nakahanda Monteiro was born in Angola in 1979 and moved to Portugal when she was two years old. She writes poetry and fiction. Her first novel, Essa dama bate bué!/ Loose Ties (Guerra e Paz Editores, 2018), is an electrifying and colourful story, with shadows of an uncertain and shifting past. Is both a […]