Paula Cosme Pinto was a journalist at Expresso weekly newspaper for 10 years and is currently a communications consultant. She has maintained her opinion column “A Vida de Saltos Altos” on Expresso’s website, where, since 2015, has written regular analyses on the challenges of gender equality. Along the way, she published ‘Os Segredos da Maleta […]

Ana Bárbara Pedrosa is the author of three novels Lisboa, Chão Sagrado (2019, finalist for the Fundação Eça de Queiroz literary prize), Palavra do Senhor (2021) and Amor estragado (2023). She also wrote a non-fiction book called Viagens com o Mehdi (2024), which is travel literature. Besides, Pedrosa has written for plenty newspapers and magazines in Portugal. She has advanced degrees in Human […]

Ana Cláudia Santos’s first collection of stories, A Morsa – Contos de Inocência e de Violência, was released in 2022. She has translated authors such as Carlo Collodi, Giacomo Leopardi, Italo Svevo, Sergio Solmi, Carlo Levi and Fleur Jaeggy. She has a PhD in Theory of Literature from the University of Lisbon and dedicates herself to the study […]

Kalaf Epalanga (1978) is a writer and musician born in Benguela, Angola, and based in Berlin. As a musician, he co-founded the record label Enchufada and is a member of Buraka Som Sistema (on hiatus since 2016). He has written columns for the Portuguese newspaper Público, GQ Magazine (Portugal), the independent Angolan online magazine REDE […]

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 […]

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, […]