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Taiye Selasi is an author and photographer. Born in London and raised in Boston, she holds a BA in American Studies from Yale and an MPhil in International Relations from Oxford. In 2005 she published the seminal essay “Bye-Bye, Babar (Or: What is an Afropolitan?)” offering an alternative vision of African identity for a transnational […]
Isabel Lucas is a journalist and literary critic. She began her journalism career in television before working for several of Portugal’s most important newspapers and magazines. A freelancer since 2012, she contributes regularly to Publíco, Portugal’s top newspaper, and regularly writes for other publications in Portugal and abroad, focusing principally on American literature. She is the author of […]
Inês Fonseca Santos (Lisboa, 1979) is a writer and journalist. She has published among other titles Regressar a Casa com Manuel António Pina (ed. Abysmo), which includes the film As Casas Não Morrem (directed by Pedro Macedo the poetry books As Coisas (il. João Fazenda; ed. Abysmo), A Habitação de Jonas (il. Ana Ventura; ed. […]
The life of Jorge Silva Melo is made up of farewells and returns. Lisbon born and bred, he became ‘foreignised’ early on. He studied at the London Film School and in the great centres of European theatre. He trained in Berlin with Peter Stein and in Milan – at the Piccolo Teatro and La Scala […]
José Gardeazabal was born in Lisbon, where he currently lives. He has lived, worked and studied in Luanda, Aveiro, Boston and Los Angeles. Recipient of the INCM/Vasco Graça Moura Prize for his poetry book história do século vinte in 2016, he published that same year Dicionário de ideias feitas em literatura. In the following year, […]
Rui Cardoso Martins (Portalegre, 1967) is a writer and a scriptwriter. He is the author of four novels: E se eu Gostasse Muito de Morrer (Glad to Die), Deixem Passar o Homem Invisível (Let the Invisible Man Pass By — Grande Prémio APE 2009) —, Se Fosse Fácil era Para os Outros (If it was […]
Ru Freeman is an award-winning Sri Lankan born writer and activist whose creative and political work has appeared internationally, including in the UK Guardian, The Boston Globe, and the New York Times. She is the author of the essay collection Bon Courage: Essays on Inheritance, Citizenship & A Creative Life (2023), the short story collection, Sleeping Alone (2022), and the novels A Disobedient Girl (2009), and On Sal Mal […]
Terrance Hayes is the author of five poetry collections, including How to Be Drawn, which received the 2016 NAACP Image Award for Poetry and Lighthead, which won the 2010 National Book Award for poetry. American Sonnets for My Past And Future Assassin, and To Float In The Space Between: Drawings and Essays in Conversation with Etheridge Knight are forthcoming […]
Garth Greenwell is the author of What Belongs to You, which won the British Book Award for Debut of the Year, was longlisted for the National Book Award, and was a finalist for six other awards, including the PEN/Faulkner Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. A New York Times Book Review Editors’ […]
Deanne Fitzmaurice is a Pulitzer Prize-winning documentary photojournalist renowned for her compelling visual storytelling. With a deep sensitivity and emotional depth, her work captures the resilience of the human spirit, exemplified by her powerful portrayal of Saleh, a young Iraqi war victim, which earned her the Pulitzer Prize in 2005. A highly decorated photographer, Deanne has received […]