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He has a Bachelor's degree in Landscape Architecture from the University of Évora. He was Director of the Ria Formosa Natural Park and the Marshland Nature Reserve of Castro Marim and Vila Real de Santo. He has written three novels and won the LeYa prize for «The Invisible People» (April 2022). Slippery Slopes – Selected Poetry, revisiting twelve poems, is his most recent book.

Last update: january 2025

In addition to being an architect, he is also a freelance journalist.
He was an activist with the Wake Up Lisbon Movement, editor of «DIF» and «Le Cool Lisboa» and journalist for «Coimbra Coolectiva» magazine.
He took second place in the Fundação Casais/CEiiA Prize for «Journalism for Sustainability 2023», received an honourable mention in the «2023 Journalism and Local Power» Prize from the Association of Portuguese Municipalities and an honourable mention for journalism from «Associação Corações com Coroa» in 2024.
He has a Bachelor's degree in Architecture form the Coimbra School of Artistic Technology and a Master's degree in Building Rehabilitation from the University of Coimbra.

Last updated: january 2025

She graduated in Law from the University of Coimbra and is a journalist, commentator, columnist and writer.
She was editor and chief editor of the weekly Expresso, where she writes the column «Capricious Feather» and continues to publish regularly. She was also on the editorial boards of the newspapers A Tarde, Correio da Manhã and Jornal de Letras.
For four years (2000-2004), she directed the Casa Fernando Pessoa, where she re-founded the magazine Tabacaria, and was a member of the Board of Directors of the Centro Cultural de Belém (2010-2013).
She is a resident commentator on SIC Notícias’ political current affairs programme «The Axis of Evil» and Canal Q’s programme «What Remains of What Passes». She co-wrote the television programmes «Figures of Style» with Vasco Graça Moura, and «Chatter», both on RTP2, and «The Path is Made by Walking» with Mário Soares, on RTP1. She also appeared on the television programme «The Lord Who Follows» on SIC.
She has published books of short stories, collections of essays and chronicles and a novel. She is a member of the jury for the Pessoa Prize and the German Marshall Fund in Portugal, and is a member of the General Council of the University of Coimbra.

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006, becoming the first Turkish writer to receive this award. In addition to being a writer, he is Professor of Literature at Columbia University. He studied architecture at Istanbul Technical University and journalism at Istanbul University, but never pursued either of these professions. He lived in the US between 1985 and 1988, where he attended Columbia University in New York and also the University of Iowa for a short time. He currently lives in Istanbul, where he was born in 1952.

Last updated: January 2024

He is a researcher at the University of Lisbon, where he returned after a long career by universities in Spain, France, Germany and the United Kingdom. He was responsible for the creation of the Coa Archaeological Park and its classification as World Heritage, and for the discovery of the «Lapedo Child». He was founder and director of the Portuguese Institute of Archaeology. The humanised image we have of neanderthals today is largely due to the results of the research that he conducted or fostered in deposits in Portugal, Spain and Romania.

She is a writer, teacher, literary critic and communicator. She has worked in the dissemination of Books and Literature in the press and on television for 30 years, at dissemination events and writing workshops and tutoring.
Currently, she is editor of «Ler» magazine, she writes literary criticism in the «Sol» newspaper, coordinates and teaches a post-graduate degree in fiction writing at Universidade Lusófona, she is responsible for the communication of Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos essays and portraits, part of the communication office of ULS Médio Tejo, coordinates the Dom Luis I Foundation programme of International Writing Residences and is on the Cultural Council of the Eça de Queiroz Foundation.
She is the author of the novel «This Is My Body», translated into seven languages, of the reportage book «The Last Sailors» (FFMS) and of a «Sentimental Dictionary of Adultery».

Last updated: May 2024

He was born in Bombarral in 1963. He has a Bachelor's degree in Economics from ISE and he is a teacher and journalist. He was a correspondent for the Diário de Notícias and wrote for Sábado, Dirigir and Le Rail magazines. He has worked at the Público since 1991 and is Deputy Director of Gazeta das Caldas.

Last updated: February 2017

She has a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy and enjoys being alive so much that she finds herself thinking of death quite frequently. Over the years, she has read a lot about the subject, which continues to intrigue her. She also has many other interests, ranging from literary translation to traditional typography. This is her fourth book, with other books in the works.

Last updated: October 2018