Pedro Mexia was born in Lisbon in 1972. He writes reviews and a weekly column for Expresso, and also works for radio and TV. He published twenty books (collections of newspaper columns, journals, poetry), and coordinates the poetry collection of the publishing house Tinta-da-China. He was on the jury of the Camões Prize. A former deputy director of […]

Rui Vieira Nery was born in Lisbon in 1957. He holds a Licentiateship in History from the University of Lisbon (1980) and a Ph.D. in Musicology from the University of Texas at Austin (1990), which he attended as a Fulbright Scholar and a grantee of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. He teaches at the Universidade Nova […]

João Tordo was born in Lisbon in 1975. He is the author of ten books, divided between the novel, the detective story and the essay. He won the José Saramago Literary Prize in 2009, with the novel As Três Vidas, and the Fernando Namora Literary Prize in 2021, with Felicidade. He was also a finalist […]

Patrícia Portela is a writer and performance maker born in 1974, living between Belgium and Portugal. She studied set and costume design in Lisbon and in Utrecht, film in Ebeltoft, Denmark, and Philosophy in Leuven, Belgium. Since 2003 she has worked on her own performances and installations in collaboration with international artists. She has achieved […]

Rui Zink was born in Lisbon in 1961, where he is now a writer and university lecturer. He was a regular guest on late-night TV discussion programmes and he has become popular as an agent provocateur in Lisbon’s cultural scene. Zink is the author of more than twenty books, including A arte suprema, the first […]

The Portuguese writer Gonçalo M. Tavares was born in Luanda in 1970 and grew up in Portugal. Beside his work as writer, he teaches Theory of Science at a university in Lisbon. Since 2001, Tavares has surprised his readers with the variety of his books and has been awarded an impressive number of literary prizes […]

José Luís Peixoto (1974) is one of Portugal’s most acclaimed and bestselling novelists. His first novel Nenhum Olhar (published as Blank Gaze in the UK by Bloomsbury and as The Implacable Order of Things in the USA by Doubleday/Anchor/Random House) won the Jose Saramago Literary Award, granted every two years for the best novel written […]

Patrícia Reis’s most recent work is The Disobedient, a biography of Maria Teresa Horta, published in 2024. Horta is the only surviving author of the well-known “Three Marias,” the trio of intrepid writers who authored the Novas Cartas Portuguesas (New Portuguese Letters), the feminist manifesto that echoed around the world and scandalized the Portuguese dictatorship. […]

Jacinto Lucas Pires was born in Porto in 1974 and lives in Lisbon. He is a writer and a playwright. His new novel is due out in May. The True Actor (published in the US by Dzanc, translation by Jaime Braz and Dean Thomas Ellis) won the 2013 Domingos da Silva Teixeira Distinguished Literature Award […]