Tatiana Faia lives and works in Oxford. She is the author of one book of short stories and three books of poems, most recently Um quarto em Atenas/A Room in Athens (2018). She holds a PhD in Ancient Greek Literature and has translated Homer and Anne Carson into Portuguese. She also shares editorial responsibilities in […]

Nuno Brito was born in Porto. He has a BA in History and an MA in Medieval and Renaissance History. He also attended the Institute for Medieval Studies in Rome where he pursued studies on Abelard. He published a book of short stories and his poems are published in various literary magazines. He now lives […]

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 […]

Maria Teresa Horta was born in Lisbon, Portugal in 1937. In addition to journalism, plays, and fiction, she is most renowned as a poet. She has published 21 works of poetry, from Espelho Inicial (First Mirror) in1960) to Anunciações in 2016, none of which have been translated into English. Soon after the publication of her […]

With her first novel, And the Night Spins (2012), a failed love story set in Israel and the Palestinian Territories, Alexandra Lucas Coelho received the Portuguese Association of Writers’ prestigious literary prize. Her second novel, My Sunday Lover (2014), a short satire, was translated into French by Éditions du Seuil. In 2016 she published her […]

Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida is a writer. She is the author of the novels Esse Cabelo, Três Histórias de Esquecimento, Luanda, Lisboa, Paraíso, As Telefones and Ferry. She teaches at New York University.