Matilde Campilho is the author of Jóquei (Jockey), a poetry collection published in 2014, and of Flecha (Arrow), a book of very short stories published in 2020. Her work has appeared in Granta, New Observations, Berlin Quarterly, Bat City Review, The Common, St. Petersburg Review, and GQ Portugal. Matilde is also a radio co-host. She […]

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 […]

Afonso Reis Cabral published his first book of poetry at fifteen (Condensation). He has a degree in Portuguese and Lusophone Studies, a master’s degree in the same field and a post-graduate degree in Fiction Writing. He went twice to Germany in search of a story, the first time at the age of thirteen. He worked […]

Dulce Maria Cardoso is a Portuguese writer who spent her childhood in Luanda, Angola after her parents moved there when she was an infant. Her family returned to Portugal following the Angolan War of Independence in 1975. She studied law at the University of Lisbon and worked as a lawyer before becoming a full-time writer. […]

Isabela Figueiredo was born in Lourenço Marques, Mozambique, now Maputo, in 1963, the daughter of Portuguese from the Center-West region of Portugal. After independence from Mozambique, in 1975, she came to Portugal. She graduated in Modern Languages and Literature, variant of Portuguese Studies, at the NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) and […]