Susana Moreira Marques is the author of four books of literary non-fiction and one book for children. Her work has appeared in Granta, Tin House, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. She has been awarded fellowships from the Gabriel García Márquez Foundation (Colombia), the Jan Michalski Foundation (Switzerland), Art OMI (US), amongst others. She also writes for […]

Afonso Cruz, born in 1971, is a multidisciplinary artist, author of more than 40 books, among novels, theatre plays, picture books, juvenile novellas, poetry, phototext and essays. His books have been published in more than 20 languages and have received many awards, including the European Union Prize for Literature for the novel Kokoschka’s Doll.

Pedro Mexia is a writer and a literary critic who lives in Lisbon. He  writes reviews and a weekly column for Expresso, and also works for radio and TV. He has published twenty books (including collections of newspaper columns, journals, and poetry), and coordinates the poetry collection of the publishing house Tinta-da-China. His books of […]

Born in Lisbon, June 1954. Graduated in Philosophy. Writes short stories, novels, plays, scripts. Translated Duras, Gertrude Stein, Alfred Jarry, etc. Published 8 novels, 7 collections of short stories, 2 libretti, one of them for the opera WHITE RAVEN, by Philip Glass and Robert Wilson; wrote 12 plays and some books for children. Won several […]

Filipa Leal was born in Porto and studied journalism at the University of Westminster in London. She went on to earm a MA in Portuguese and Brazilian Literature at the University of Porto and has since worked as a journalist in radio, newspapers and television and organised a series of literary readings and events in […]

Daniel Jonas was born in Porto where he currently lives and works as a teacher. Besides being a poet, he is also a dramatist and a translator. Poetry books published since 2000: Moça formosa, lençóis de veludo (2002), Os fantasmas inquilinos (2005), Sonótono (2007), Passageiro Frequente (2013), Nó (2014)

(Lisbon, 1956). The author of fifteen books of poetry, including Minha Senhora de Quê (1990), Coisas de Partir (1993), Às Vezes o Paraíso (1998), Imagias (2002), A Arte de ser Tigre (2003) A Génese do Amor (2005), Se Fosse Um Intervalo (Dom Quixote, 2009), or Vozes (Dom Quixote, 2010), Ana Luísa Amaral is a professor […]

Antonio Lobo Antunes is the author of more than twenty books, including the novels The Return of the Caravels, Knowledge of Hell, The Natural Order of Things, The Inquisitors’ Manual, and What Can I Do When Everything’s On Fire? His book of newspaper “crónicas”—a free-form amalgam of essay and fiction—was published in the U.S. in […]

Teolinda Gersão is author of 19 books, translated in 20 countries. Some of her works have been adapted to theatre and cinema. She received some of the most important Portuguese literary awards and was writer-in-residence at the University of California, Barkeley. English translations: The Word Tree (novel) Dedalus Books, UK; City of Ulysses (novel) Dalkey […]

The Portuguese writer Lídia Jorge is one of the most representative writers of the post-Revolution Generation in Portugal. Her books have been published in many foreign countries where her work has been widely recognized. Lídia Jorge’s roots are in Algarve, Boliqueime, where she was born in 1946. After finishing high school there, she took a […]