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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 is a journalist at the «Público» newspaper, which she joined in 2009 and where she still works. She was part of the founding team of P3.

Last updated: January 2024

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.

Novelist, essayist and poet.
She did a History course at St Olaf College and got a PhD in English at Columbia University. She has received honorary doctorates from the universities of Oslo and Stendhal-Grenoble and Gutenberg University-Mainz.
Her works have been translated into more than 30 languages, the highlights of these being «The Summer Without Men», «What I Love» and «The Blazing World».

President of Brazil for two terms (between 1995 and 2003).
He has a PhD in Political Sciences and a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology. He is a university professor and writer and was considered by the Library of Congress to be one of the greatest thinkers in the area of political science and sociology in Latin America.
He was in exile during the military dictatorship in Brazil, in Chile in 1964 and then in France, before returning to his country in 1968. He was the founder of the Brazilian Centre for Analysis and Planning (Cebrap). He also taught at Stanford, Cambridge and Paris universities.
He represented São Paulo as a senator for the Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB) and was one of the founders of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB) in 1988. He was a member of the parliament that drafted the Constitution.
He was Minister of Foreign Affairs (1992-1993) and Minister of Finance (1993-1994) in Itamar Franco's government.
He has a PhD Honoris Causa from the University of Coimbra and University of Porto Schools of Economics and from the University of Montreal. He has received the John W. Kluge Award (2012).

Historian and writer, specialising in modern Greece, 20th century Europe and international history. He is a professor of History at Columbia University.
He studied Classical History and Philosophy at Oxford, International Relations at the Johns Hopkins University Bologna Centre and has a PhD in Modern History from Oxford (1988).
He published «Hitler's Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe» (Allen Lane) in 2008, which won the LA Times Book Prize for History the same year.
His most recent book is «What You Did Not Tell: A Russian Past and the Journey Home» (Other Press, 2017).