Paulo Teixeira was born in Lourenço Marques – today Maputo, the capital of Mozambique – in 1962. He studied Geography and Regional Planning at the New University in Lisbon, and since 1997 has been an editor at »Relãmpago«, a literary journal, as well as board member of the Luís Miguel
Pedro Rosa Mendes was born in Cernache do Bonjadrin in Portugal in 1968. He studied law and went on to work as a journalist, for example, for the Portuguese newspaper »Publico«. He became known by his reports from war zones, for which he received the Feature of the Year Award
Nuno Júdice was born in 1949 in Mexilhoeira Grande in Algarve, Portugal. He studied Romance languages and literature and completed his doctorate in medieval studies at the Faculty for Social Sciences and Humanities at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, where he taught French and Portuguese literature as an associate professor
Portuguese writer Lídia Jorge was born in Boliqueime in the Algarve region of Portugal in 1946. She grew up as an only child with her mother and predominantly female family members. The absence of male attachment figures due to emigration and a rural environment were formative for her childhood. At
José Saramago was born in 1922 to a family of landless peasants in the little village of Azinhga in the Portuguese province, Ribatejo. Two years later, his family moved to Lisbon. His parents could not afford to send him to secondary school so he attended a technical school where he
Grada Kilomba is an interdisciplinary artist and writer, born in Lisbon and living in Berlin. Her work draws on memory, trauma, and the decolonisation of knowledge: ‘who can speak?’ ‘what can we speak about?’ and ‘what happens when we speak?’ are three constant questions in Kilomba’s body of work. She is best
The Portuguese comic artist Francisco Sousa Lobo was born in 1973 in Mozambique. He studied architecture in Lisbon from 1992 to 1999, was an Erasmus grant recipient in Venice in 1997, completed his Master of Fine Arts at the Royal College of Art in London from 2005 to 2007, and
Filipe Melo was born in 1977 in Lisbon, Portugal. He began playing piano at the age of 14, developing an interest in jazz music and improvisation. He studied at the Hot Clube music school in Portugal before getting a degree from Berklee College of Music in Boston, USA. He has
David Machado was born in Lisbon in 1978. He studied economics at the Instituto Superior de Economia e Gesto, and began his literary career writing stories that appeared in a supplement of the daily paper Dirio de Notcias. O fantstico Vero do Caf Lanterna (t: The fantastic summer of Caf
Catarina Sobral was born in 1985 in Coimbra, Portugal. She studied graphic design and illustration and subsequently worked as a freelance illustrator. Although Sobral’s graphical work usually prioritizes a limited color palette, she readily works in two dimensions and with various techniques, combining collage, ink and colored pencils. »Achimpa« (2012),
Bernardo P. Carvalho was born in Lisbon in 1973 and studied communication design at the local art school. He is co-founder of the children’s book publisher Planeta Tangerina, which was launched in 1999 and for which he has worked ever since. The publisher released the book »Daqui ninguém passa« (2014;
António Lobo Antunes was born in Lisbon in 1942 and grew up in the Benfica district. His parents belonged to the upper middle classes. He studied medicine in his home city, specialising in psychiatry. From 1971 to 1973, during the colonial war in Angola, he worked as a military doctor.
