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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

(1923-2025) Nobel Prize for Literature 2010, he was one of Latin-American literature’s greatest authors, whose works have been translated into over 20 languages. After graduating with a degree in literature and law from the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, in 1959 he left for Spain, where he obtained a PhD in Philosophy and Literature from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. His commitment to literature bore fruit when his first publication, a collection of short stories published under the title «Los jefes» (The Bosses), was awarded the Leopoldo Arias prize.
In 1964, he returned to Peru before travelling to Havana, where he sat on the jury of the Casa de las Américas Awards and on the editorial board of the «Casa de las Américas» magazine. Later, he worked as a translator for UNESCO in Greece with Julio Cortázar and lived in Europe until 1974, mainly in Paris, London and Barcelona. In 1975, he was appointed a member of the Peruvian Academy of Language and in 1976, he was elected President of the International Pen Club. In 1994, he was appointed a member of the Royal Spanish Academy. In 1981, he returned to Peru, where he directed the television programme The Tower of Babel. In 1987, he emerged as the political leader of the Freedom Movement and, three years later, he ran for President of the Republic for the Frente Democrático-FREDEMO party.
He has been a Visiting Professor or Resident Writer at various universities around the world, such as Queen Mary College and King's College at the University of London, the University of Cambridge, the Scottish Arts Council, Washington State University, Columbia University, the Smithsonian's Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Florida International University and Harvard University.

Last updated: april 2025

In 2002, he created the group «The Republic of Ideas», which he chairs. In 1978, he took charge of the Sociology department at the Travail et Societé centre created by Jacques Delors at the University of Paris-Dauphine. Since 1978, he has been Professor at the École des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales and Director of Studies, a position he still holds. Since the 1990s, he has devoted himself to documenting the intellectual history of democracy in France. In 2001, he was appointed Professor at the Collège de France.

He is a national Poetry Slam champion and a multi-platinum songwriter, writing to entertain, inspire and challenge listeners. Many of his poetry videos have gone viral, with over 50 million total views. His extraordinary performances include: selling out one of the largest poetry shows in Los Angeles history, being the first spoken word artist to perform with Cirque du Soleil and being featured on HBO's Def Poetry Jam by A&E's Look Closer campaign. Organisations such as Google, Facebook, IBM, Nike, Spotify and Shazam have invited him to give motivational workshops on creativity and storytelling.

Born in Massachusetts, he is the son of an Italian mother and a Canadian father. He attended university in Maine and Massachusetts (Amherst), and currently lives between Cape Cod and Hawaii. He has taught in Italy, Malawi, Uganda, Singapore and the UK. He has written dozens of novels, essays and some of the best travel books ever, such as «The Old Patagonian Express», «Ghost Train to the Orient», «Deep South and «The Great Railway Bazaar».

A journalist, he was Director of News at RTP and TVI, simultaneously editing and presenting Telejornal (RTP) and Jornal das 8 (TVI). He began his career in radio and, in 1992, was part of the team that founded the first private television station in Portugal, SIC, where he presented Jornal da Noite. He taught at the Escola Superior de Comunicação Social and co-coordinated the Postgraduate Course in Journalism at ISCTE/Media Capital. At the invitation of the President of the Republic, he inaugurated the programme «Journalists in Belém Palace» in 2018.