RUY BELO nasceu a 27 de Fevereiro de 1933. Licenciado pela Faculdade de Direito de Lisboa, doutorou-se em Direito Can贸nico na Universidade S茫o Tom谩s de Aquino, em Roma. Abandona a Opus Dei em 1961 e l鈥�
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator regarded as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature. His best-known鈥�
William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet, and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's鈥�
Margaret Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa and grew up in northern Ontario, Quebec, and Toronto. She received her undergraduate degree from Victoria College at the University of Toronto and her master鈥�
Pablo Neruda, born Ricardo Eli茅cer Neftal铆 Reyes Basoalto in 1904 in Parral, Chile, was a poet, diplomat, and politician, widely considered one of the most influential literary figures of the 20th cen鈥�
Niccol貌 di Bernardo dei Machiavelli was an Italian political philosopher, musician, poet, and playwright. He is a figure of the Italian Renaissance and a central figure of its political component, mos鈥�
At the age of seven, Ant贸nio Lobo Antunes decided to be a writer but when he was 16, his father sent him to medical school - he is a psychiatrist. During this time he never stopped writing. By the end 鈥�
Jorge Amado was a modernist Brazilian writer. He remains one of the most read and translated Brazilian authors, second only to Paulo Coelho. In his style of fictional novelist, however, there is no pa鈥�
Ambroise-Paul-Toussaint-Jules Val茅ry was a French poet, essayist, and philosopher. His interests were sufficiently broad that he can be classified as a polymath. In addition to his fiction (poetry, dr鈥�
One of the greatest portuguese poets and painters. A convict surrealist who introduced the Cadavre Exquis in Portugal, also known for being an excentric and bohemian artist. In France Cesariny met And鈥�
Herberto Helder was born into a family of Jewish ancestry in the Portuguese Atlantic island of Madeira. In 1946 he traveled to Lisbon to complete his secondary studies and subsequently in 1948 moved t鈥�
SOPHIA DE MELLO BREYNER ANDERSEN nasceu no Porto, a 6 de Novembro de 1919. Entre 1936 e 1939 frequentou o curso de Filologia Cl谩ssica na Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, que n茫o concluiu鈥�
Manoel Wenceslau Leite de Barros is a Brazilian poet. He has won many awards for his work, including twice the Pr锚mio Jabuti, the most important literary award in Brazil. Today he is renowned by his c鈥�
Jos茅 de Sousa Saramago (16 November 1922 鈥� 18 June 2010) was a Portuguese novelist and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony鈥�
MARIA DO ROS脕RIO PEDREIRA nasceu em Lisboa, em 1959. Licenciou-se em L铆nguas e Literaturas Modernas, na variante de Estudos Franceses e Ingleses, pela Faculdade de Letras da Universidade Cl谩ssica de L鈥�
脡 aluno da Escola Superior de Belas Artes, de onde 茅 expulso em 1942 por motivos pol铆ticos. Participou nas actividades do Grupo Surrealista de Lisboa, entre 1949 e 1951 e em 1962, depois de ser preso 鈥�
S谩ndor M谩rai (originally S谩ndor K谩roly Henrik Grosschmied de M谩ra) was a Hungarian writer and journalist. He was born in the city of Kassa in Austria-Hungary (now Ko拧ice in Slovakia) to an old family o鈥�
Jos茅 Maria E莽a de Queir贸s was a novelist committed to social reform who introduced naturalism and realism to Portugal. He is often considered to be the greatest Portuguese novelist, certainly the lead鈥�
Matilde Campilho nasceu em Lisboa em 1982. No ano de 2010 foi viver para o Brasil, e desde ent茫o mora entre o Rio de Janeiro e Lisboa. Publicou poemas nos jornais brasileiros A Folha de S茫o Paulo e O 鈥�
Andreia C. Faria nasceu no Porto, em 1984. Publicou em 2008 o seu primeiro livro de poemas, De haver relento (Cosmorama Edi莽玫es). Seguiram-se Fl煤or (Textura Edi莽玫es, 2013), Um pouco acima do lugar ond鈥�
