Jose de Sousa Saramago, (November 1922-June 2010), was a Portuguese
writer and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature. His
works, some of which can be seen as allegories, commonly present
subversive perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the
theopoetic human factor. More than two million copies of Saramago's
books have been sold in Portugal alone and his work has been
translated into 25 languages. He was a founding member of the
National Front for the Defense of Culture in Lisbon in 1992, and
co-founder with Orhan Pamuk, of the European Writers' Parliament
(EWP).
Margaret Jull Costa is a translator of Portuguese and Spanish
fiction and poetry, including the works of Jose Saramago, E a de
Queiroz, Fernando Pessoa, Paulo Coelho, Bernardo Atxaga, Carmen
Martin Gaite, Javier Marias, Angela Vallvey, and Luisa Valenzuela..
Her translations have been awarded the International Dublin
Literary Award, the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize (four
times), and the TLS Translation Prize, among many others. She lives
in England
Armando Fonseca studied philosophy at the National Autonomous
University of Mexico. He works as an illustrator across different
media- illustrated books, albums, covers, press work. Armando's
work has been exhibited in Mexico and abroad and has been
recognized at the Sharjah Children's Reading Festival, the
Bratislava International Biennial of Illustration, Iberoamerica
Ilustra, the Illustrators Show of the Bologna Fair, and at the
Shanghai Book Fair. He created the collective CAJA with the
illustrators Juan Palomino and Amanda Mijangos.
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