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From Iolanda to Os Quatro e Meia, the sonnets of Florbela Espanca are reborn in 14 songs on an album arriving on platforms and in stores this Friday. João Só explains how it all began.
A reflection on the legacy of journalist and writer Mário Zambujal, who recently passed away. The text explores his deep connection to the golden age of Lisbon's newspaper culture and his iconic novel, 'A Crónica dos Bons Malandros' (The Chronicle of the Good Rascals). It highlights how Zambujal captured the essence of Lisbon's characters—from street vendors to petty criminals—through a comedic and realistic lens, culminating in a daring, chaotic heist at the Gulbenkian Museum that serves as a testament to his storytelling wit.
Poet, activist, and PhD candidate in Post-Colonialisms, Raquel Lima is the first Portuguese, Angolan, and São Toméan intellectual to be nominated for the award. Ionara Silva was also distinguished.
With the book 'A Chuva que Lança a Areia do Saara' (The Rain that Throws the Sahara Sand), the author won the 2025 prize, which will be presented to her at the Quinta das Lágrimas in Coimbra. J. Rentes de Carvalho won the Tribute of Consecration Prize.
Writer Ana Margarida de Carvalho is the winner of the 19th edition of the Inês de Castro Foundation Literary Prize, while Rentes de Carvalho was distinguished with the Tribute of Consecration award, the organization announced today.
According to the jury, this is “an intimate, feminine, and very emotional book, though never sentimental.” By winning the Nuno Júdice Poetry Prize, the author now has the opportunity to make her literary debut.
The author recalls that no one celebrated Viseu like Aquilino Ribeiro, listing a series of books where the writer mentions the city, describing it as pleasant, lovely, lively, and joyful.
After drawing over 200,000 people to theatres in Portugal and Brazil with the play 'O Céu da Língua', comedian and writer Gregorio Duvivier is now launching the book 'À Flor da Língua', based on the show. The launch will feature a special session this Tuesday (17) at the Palácio Galveias Library in Lisbon, where Duvivier will be in conversation with Ricardo Araújo Pereira at 6:30 PM. The book explores the musicality and sound of the Portuguese language, reflecting on how words shape thought and identity. The play itself continues its tour across Portugal, including stops in Lisbon, Madeira, the Azores, Porto, and Évora.
It is one of those thrillers that grips you from the very first page: André Braga, an engineer from Póvoa de Varzim working in Dubai, debuts as a crime novelist with “Sem perdão” (Without Forgiveness), the first in a promising series.
Author Rui Zink discusses his new novel 'Olga Salva o Mundo', his creative process, and his perspective on the current state of society and the Portuguese literary scene. The article also features brief reviews of 'Diários de Viagem' by Matsuo Bashô and 'Os Vikings' by Pierre Bauduin.
Camões was not only an extraordinary poet, but also an excellent observer and historian. Opinion by Jorge Paiva
If my suggestion happens to disappoint any reader, let us both take refuge in the words of Rilke: “Works of art are of an infinite loneliness.”
The American poet and writer questions social status and draws parallels with the worlds of music, sociology, and political theory. We spoke with the author of the book “The Melancholia of Class”.
The reader of Camilo (1825-1890) has plenty to choose from: an endless list of novellas, novels, serials, episodes, short stories, diatribes, memoirs, and the list is only halfway through.
With humour and historical research, the book “Sabedoria do Convento” explores friendship, work, and love, connecting the past and the present. We spoke with the authors, Ana Garriga and Carmen Urbita.
Between 1971 and 1973, he served in the war as a militia medical officer.
The former British prime minister was a brilliant author of texts and phrases that left their mark on world history.
It is in the remote character that the unique wonder of Gil Vicente's plays lies, mixtures of entertainment, religious ceremony, agricultural fair, riddle, and propaganda.
The books of the week on the bookshelf of Carlos Vaz Marques, Ricardo Araújo Pereira, Pedro Mexia and João Miguel Tavares
And yes, he is a cunning gentleman, the rascal - but there is nothing malicious about him. And that is so evident in the characters of Mário Zambujal.
SPA recalls “the much” that Mário Zambujal did “for journalism and literature”.
The French director held up a mirror to the 1942 work, essential to 20th-century literature, and to the enigmatic character Meursault, to try to understand what the reflection tells us.
As much as António Lobo Antunes claimed the status of a great writer, he would certainly find it inconvenient to be elevated to Great Writer in the superlative degree. Opinion by António Guerreiro.
In the work 'Andam Faunos pelos Bosques', this Spanish friar of the Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary is presented, who so moved the pilgrims during the Novena of Saint Barnabas in 1900.