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Maaza Mengiste is a Fulbright Scholar, photographer, and the award-winning author of Beneath the Lion’s Gaze, selected by the Guardian as one of the 10 best contemporary African books. The novel was named one of the best books of 2010 by Christian Science Monitor, Boston Globe, Publishers Weekly and other publications. Her fiction and nonfiction […]
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.
Arthur Flowers, native of Memphis, is author of novels and nonfictions, including Another Good Loving Blues, Mojo Rising: Confessions of a 21st Century Conjureman, and the graphicwork, I See The Promised Land from Tara Books, India. He is a Delta based performance poet, webmaster of Rootsblog, and has been Executive Director of various nonprofits and […]
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 […]
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 […]
Richard Zenith’s biography of Pessoa was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2022. Education by Stone: Selected Poems by Brazil’s João Cabral de Melo Neto won the 2006 translation award from the Academy of American Poets. In addition to his voluminous translations of Pessoa’s work and the writings of other Portuguese poets, Zenith’s fiction […]
ROBERT OLMSTEAD is the author of seven novels, the memoir STAY HERE WITH ME, and RIVER DOGS, a collection of short stories. His three most recent novels, known as the Childs Trilogy: COAL BLACK HORSE, FAR BRIGHT STAR, and THE COLDEST NIGHT, have been optioned by Casey Affleck. FAR BRIGHT STAR, declared one of the […]
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 […]
In the past few years Lopes’ work has been seen in the U.S. at the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore, at El Museo del Barrio, ApexArt and the America’s Society in New York, at the Contemporary Art Museum in Saint Louis, among other venues. In the same period his work was also seen in France, Germany, […]