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Ana Rita Bessa guarantees that she does not agree with the publication of books created by AI. The CEO of the publisher Leya says that it is necessary to protect authors and not let the national market die.
“Delusion and Dream in Jensen's Gradiva”, by Sigmund Freud, was the first title published by Gradiva at the time of its founding by Guilherme Valente. It is now being reissued as a sign of continuity after the publisher was acquired by Guerra & Paz.
Quetzal publishing house launches 'A Biblioteca de Alexandria', a new collection featuring foundational literary works such as 'Lazarillo de Tormes', 'Robinson Crusoe', and Eça de Queirós' 'A Cidade e as Serras'. Director Francisco José Viegas and contributors discuss the importance of these texts in shaping the modern novel, the role of the narrator, and the necessity of cultural appropriation in literature.
Sales resulted in a financial revenue of 46.839 million euros, up 3.5% compared to the first quarter of 2025. The most sought-after genre was children's and young adult literature.
Classics of Portuguese literature in comic book format available in English, Spanish, and Polish, published by Levoir. The first work is “Mensagem” by Fernando Pessoa, which has been available in Portuguese since 2024.
Levoir will publish the English and Spanish translations of Fernando Pessoa's 'Mensagem' on Friday.
Through short stories featuring the poor, the unprotected, and those excluded from the American dream, we come to understand that poverty in Caldwell's work is always a self-absorbed and isolated poverty.
After being accused of excluding independent publishers from the Book Fair, APEL defends itself by denouncing the distributor's bad practices, but does not reveal specific cases. The company denies the allegations to Observador.
A statement is awaited from the founder of Trust in News after the recovery plan he presented was approved by the Supreme Court of Justice, overturning the decision of the Sintra court. Employees currently ensuring the publication of Visão are already considering creating a new magazine if the process drags on without a clear end in sight.
A platform titled 'Don't steal this book' shows a book with a white cover, a black mask, and the title written in red letters, with a subtitle: 'An appeal from the authors'.
'Six billion reasons to listen to books' — a headline pointing to a figure (six billion) used to argue for the growing popularity, usage or market value of audiobooks.
The bookshop's move into publishing “was a true leap into the dark: a bet on creating books and on building Portugal's first feminist publisher”, said Lorena Travassos.
Feminism, violence, decoloniality, ecology, race, art and freedom are the themes shaping Orfeu Negro's main editorial releases for 2026, which brings together key authors of contemporary critical thought such as Françoise Vergès, Itziar Ziga and Jacques Rancière.
In the coming months, in the essays category, the forthcoming release of 'Delirium and Dreams' by Sigmund Freud is also worth highlighting.
A new collection devoted to the classics of world literature, which revisits “timeless works that continue to engage in dialogue with the present”, is the publisher Alma dos Livros' project in the year it celebrates its 10th anniversary.
Established international authors making their debut in Portugal, previously unpublished texts by Fernando Pessoa and Roberto Bolaño, and new books by Afonso Cruz, José Gardeazabal and Patrícia Reis are among the Penguin group's highlights for the first half of 2026.
The Portuguese publisher Presença's latest catalogue includes new titles by Claudia Piñeiro, Richard Powers and Toni Morrison.
Porto Editora's latest list of new titles includes works by Rui Zink, Thomas Mann and José Rodrigues Miguéis.
