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, Berkeley. 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 […]

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 […]