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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 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.

Professor of Economics and holder of the Ford Chair at MIT. He is also Co-Director of the NBER Labor Studies Programme, the MIT Task Force on Work of the Future and the experimental JPAL Work of the Future Initiative. His research explores the impacts of the technological revolution and globalisation on the labour market, specifically job polarization, demands and skills, income levels and inequalities, and electoral outcomes. He has received several awards for his academic studies – the National Science Foundation's CAREER Award, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, the Sherwin Rosen Award for Outstanding Contributions to Labor Economics, and the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship in 2019 – and also for his teaching, including the MIT MacVicar Faculty Fellowship. Most recently, Autor received the Heinz 25th Special Recognition Award from the Heinz Family Foundation for his contribution to «transforming our perception of how globalisation and the technological revolution are impacting the jobs and wage prospects of American workers.« In 2017, Bloomberg recognised him as one of the 50 people who have defined the world of business on a global scale. And in 2019, the Economist magazine labelled him «The academic voice of the American worker». Later that year, and with (at least) equal justification, he was dubbed the «Twerpy MIT Economist» by John Oliver of Last Week Tonight, in a segment on automation and employment.

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

A writer, illustrator, musician and filmmaker, he was born in Figueira da Foz and attended António Arroio School and the School of Fine Arts in Lisbon, before moving to Madeira, where he studied at the Institute of Fine Arts.
An award-winning author in several genres, with about 30 books to his credit, he has also worked as an illustrator in dozens of fiction works for children, textbooks, the press and advertising.
In 2006 he co-founded the band The Soaked Lamb, winner of the Portuguese Revelation Band Award at the Cáceres Pop Arte Festival 2011, where he is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, singer and lyricist.
He has directed more than 200 films, including animation and advertising campaigns, and worked as an animator on several films and series for children. The short film «Two Diaries and a Tile Panel», which he co-directed in 2008, was shown at several international festivals and won two honourable mentions and an audience award. The many distinctions he has received throughout his career, include the Fernando Namora Prize (2015), the European Union Prize for Literature (2012), the 2011 SPA/RTP Authors Award and the National Illustration Award (2014).
He travels extensively and has visited close to 60 countries, but 11 years ago he left Lisbon and moved to the hills in a national agricultural reserve in the Alentejo, where he lives and makes his own beer.

Last updated: May 2019

Composer, sound designer, acoustic communication specialist and professor at the School of Social and Human Sciences (NOVA-FCSH).
He is a founding member of the Portuguese Acoustic Society.
He studied with R. Murray Schafer and Barry Truax and, under the guidance of the latter, completed his Master's Degree in Interactive Hypermedia Communication at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada.
As a composer and sound designer, his work focuses mainly on theatre, video and interactive technologies.
He has written several plays and musicals. He was a programmer for the music and sound arts area at «Coimbra, National Capital of Culture 2003» and assistant to Constança Capdeville, with whom he collaborated in several works.

Last updated: September 2024

He is a member of the Luso-Brazilian Philosophy Institute, and of the Centre for Research and Studies in Fine Arts (CIEBA) at the University of Lisbon School Fine Arts, where he is an assistant professor. He teaches Aesthetics, History of Contemporary Art, Theory and History of Sculpture and Theory of Contemporary Art. He has written several books.

Last updated: November 2023

He has a Bachelor’s degree in History and a Master’s degree and PhD in Philosophy from the University of Lisbon. He is a full professor at the FLUL Department of Philosophy. Among his most relevant works are: «History of Portuguese Philosophical Thought» (dir.) 5 vols; «Portugal as a Problem», 4 vols.; «The Idea of Nature in Portugal in the 18th century»; and, with Rámon Gutiérrez, «Iberian School of Peace: the Critical Consciousness of the Conquest and Colonisation of America».

Last updated: October 2016.