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  Rui Miguel Tovar

  Rui Miguel Tovar (n. 1977) começou a trabalhar no jornal desportivo Record a 1 de novembro de 1995, dia de um Panathinaikos, 0, FC Porto, 0, para a Liga dos Campeões.
  
  Mais tarde, foi coordenador de desporto do jornal i. Ao longo destes 20 anos ligados ao jornalismo, aventurou-se num outro tipo de escrita com os livros: Almanaque do Benfica (2003), Almanaque da Selecção (2004), Almanaque do Euro-2004 (versão inglesa), Almanaque do Sporting (2005),366 Histórias de Futebol (2011), Almanaque do FC Porto (2011), 101 Cromos da Bola (2012),Almanaque do Benfica (reedição, 2012), Almanaque do Benfica (edição, 2014) e Dicionário Sentimental de Futebol (2015).
  
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  Philip K. Dick

  Philip Kindred Dick was a prolific American science fiction author whose work has had a lasting impact on literature, cinema, and popular culture. Known for his imaginative narratives and profound philosophical themes, Dick explored the nature of reality, the boundaries of human identity, and the impact of technology and authoritarianism on society. His stories often blurred the line between the real and the artificial, challenging readers to question their perceptions and beliefs.
  Raised in California, Dick began writing professionally in the early 1950s, publishing short stories in various science fiction magazines. He quickly developed a distinctive voice within the genre, marked by a fusion of science fiction concepts with deep existenti

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  Walter Isaacson

  Walter Isaacson, a professor of history at Tulane, has been CEO of the Aspen Institute, chair of CNN, and editor of Time. He is the author of 'Leonardo da Vinci; The Innovators; Steve Jobs; Einstein: His Life and Universe; Benjamin Franklin: An American Life; and Kissinger: A Biography, and the coauthor of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made. Visit him at Isaacson.Tulane.edu and on Twitter at @WalterIsaacson

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  Woody Allen

  Noted American actor, screenwriter, and filmmaker Woody Allen, originally Allen Stewart Konigsberg explored the neuroses of the urban middle class in comedies of manners, such as Annie Hall (1977) and Deconstructing Harry (1997).
  
  This director, jazz musician, and playwright thrice won Academy Award. His large body of work mixes satire, wit and humor in the most respected and prolific cerebral style in the modern era. Allen directs also in the majority of his movies. For inspiration, Allen draws heavily on literature, philosophy, psychology, Judaism, European cinema, and city of New York, where he lives.
  
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  Charles Seife

  CHARLES SEIFE is a Professor of Journalism at New York University. Formerly a journalist with Science magazine, has also written for New Scientist, Scientific American, The Economist, Science, Wired UK, The Sciences, and numerous other publications. He is the author of Zero: The Biography Of A Dangerous Idea, which won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction. He holds an M.S. in mathematics from Yale University and his areas of research include probability theory and artificial intelligence. He lives in Washington D.C.

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  Gabriel García Márquez

  Gabriel José de la Concordia Garcí­a Márquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. Garcí­a Márquez, familiarly known as "Gabo" in his native country, was considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century. In 1982, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
  
  He studied at the University of Bogotá and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas, and New York. He wrote many acclaimed non-fiction works and short stories, but is best-known for his novels, such as One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). His works have achieved significant critical acclaim and widespr

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  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb spent 21 years as a risk taker (quantitative trader) before becoming a flaneur and researcher in philosophical, mathematical and (mostly) practical problems with probability. 

  
  Taleb is the author of a multivolume essay, the Incerto (The Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness, Antifragile, and Skin in the Game) an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision making when we don’t understand the world, expressed in the form of a personal essay with autobiographical sections, stories, parables, and philosophical, historical, and scientic discussions in nonover lapping volumes that can be accessed in any order.
  
  In addition to his trader life, Taleb has also written, as a backup of the

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  Matt Haig

  Matt Haig is the author of novels such as The Midnight Library, How to Stop Time, The Humans, The Radleys, and the forthcoming The Life Impossible. He has also written books for children, such as A Boy Called Christmas, and the memoir Reasons to Stay Alive.

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  José Rodrigues dos Santos

  José Rodrigues dos Santos is the bestselling novelist in Portugal. He is the author of five essays and eight novels, including Portuguese blockbusters Codex 632, which sold 192 000 copies, The Einstein Enigma, 178 000 copies, The Seventh Seal, 190 000 copies, and The Wrath of God, 176 000 copies. His overall sales are above one million books, astonishing figures considering Portugal’s tiny market.
  
  José’s fiction is published or is about to be published in 17 languages. His novel The Wrath of God won the 2009 Porto Literary Club Award and his other novel Codex 632 was longlisted for the 2010 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
  
  His first novel, The Island of Darkness, is in the process of being adapted for cinema by one of Portugal’s leading film dire

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  Miguel Esteves Cardoso

  Miguel Esteves Cardoso is a Portuguese writer, translator, critic and journalist. He's a well known monarchist and conservative.
  
  Miguel was born in a middle class family in Lisbon. His father, Joaquim Carlos Esteves Cardoso, was Portuguese and his mother, Hazel Diana Smith, was English. He had a good education and the advantage of a bilingual and bicultural upbringing, helping him to develop an outsider's detachment from the culture of his birth country. In 1979, he graduated from Manchester University in political studies and four years later, in 1983, he received his doctorate in Political Philosophy. While there he made contact with some of the New Wave bands of the Factory records like Joy Division or New Order.
  
  In 1981 Cardoso became the

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  Ricardo Araújo Pereira

  Filho de um piloto da TAP, Artur Álvaro Neves de Almeida Pereira, e de uma assistente de bordo, Emília Rita de Araújo, foi aluno de colégios de freiras vicentinas, franciscanos e jesuítas até se licenciar em Comunicação Social e Cultural, na Universidade Católica Portuguesa. Seguiu-se o trabalho como jornalista, na redacção do Jornal de Letras, Artes e Ideias.
  
  De seguida tornou-se argumentista da agência de criadores Produções Fictícias, tendo sido co-autor de vários programas de sucesso do humor português, entre eles Herman 98 e Herman 99 (RTP, 1998 - 1999), Herman SIC (2000 - 2005), O Programa da Maria (SIC, 2001), Hermandifusão Portuguesa (RDP, 1999 - 2001), as crónicas Felizes para Sempre, no semanário Expresso e As Crónicas de José Este

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  Valter Hugo Mãe

  valter hugo mãe é o nome artístico do escritor português Valter Hugo Lemos. Além de escritor é editor, artista plástico e cantor.
  Nasceu em Saurimo, Angola em 1971. Passou a infância em Paços de Ferreira e, actualmente, vive em Vila do Conde.
  É licenciado em Direito e pós-graduado em Literatura Portuguesa Moderna e Contemporânea.
  Vencedor do Prémio José Saramago no ano de 2007
  É autor dos livros de poesia: Livro de Maldições (2006); O Resto da Minha Alegria Seguido de a Remoção das Almas e Útero (2003); A Cobrição das Filhas (2001); Estou Escondido na Cor Amarga do Fim da Tarde e Três Minutos Antes de a Maré Encher (2000); Egon Shiele Auto-Retrato de Dupla Encarnação, (Prémio de Poesia Almeida Garrett) e Entorno a Casa Sobre a Cabeça (1999);

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  Hans Rosling

  Hans Rosling (1948 – 2017) was a Swedish physician, academic, statistician, and public speaker.
  
  He was the Professor of International Health at Karolinska Institute and was the co-founder and chairman of the Gapminder Foundation, which developed the Trendalyzer software. He held presentations around the world, including several TED Talks in which he promoted the use of data to explore development issues.

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  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский (Russian)
  
  Works, such as the novels Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880), of Russian writer Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky or Dostoevski combine religious mysticism with profound psychological insight.
  
  Very influential writings of Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin included Problems of Dostoyevsky's Works (1929),
  
  Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky composed short stories, essays, and journals. His literature explores humans in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century and engages with a variety of philosophies and themes. People most acclaimed his Demons(1872) .
  
  Many literary critics rate him among the greatest authors of worl

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  Joël Dicker

  Joël Dicker was born in 1985 in Geneva, Switzerland, where he studied law. He spent childhood summers in New England, particularly in Stonington and Bar Harbor, Maine. The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair won three French literary prizes, including the Grand Prix du Roman from the Académie Française, and was a finalist for the Prix Goncourt. Dicker lives in Geneva.

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  Rui Miguel Tovar

  Rui Miguel Tovar (n. 1977) começou a trabalhar no jornal desportivo Record a 1 de novembro de 1995, dia de um Panathinaikos, 0, FC Porto, 0, para a Liga dos Campeões.
  
  Mais tarde, foi coordenador de desporto do jornal i. Ao longo destes 20 anos ligados ao jornalismo, aventurou-se num outro tipo de escrita com os livros: Almanaque do Benfica (2003), Almanaque da Selecção (2004), Almanaque do Euro-2004 (versão inglesa), Almanaque do Sporting (2005),366 Histórias de Futebol (2011), Almanaque do FC Porto (2011), 101 Cromos da Bola (2012),Almanaque do Benfica (reedição, 2012), Almanaque do Benfica (edição, 2014) e Dicionário Sentimental de Futebol (2015).
  
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  Maria Francisca Gama

  Maria Francisca Gama nasceu em Leiria em 1997.
  Aos 17 anos, mudou-se para Lisboa e formou-se em Direito, pela Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa.
  Trabalhou num escritório de advogados e, mais tarde, numa agência de comunicação.
  Atualmente divide o seu tempo entre a escrita e a leitura, o trabalho criativo por conta de outrem e as explicações de língua portuguesa.

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  Lourenço Seruya

  Lourenço Seruya nasceu em Lisboa em 1992.
  
  Concluiu em 2015 o Curso de Formação de Atores da ACT – Escola de Atores e trabalha há mais de dez anos em teatro, televisão e cinema.
  
  Paralelamente à representação, é professor de Expressão Dramática e orienta formações de Team Building para empresas através do Teatro em Equipa.
  
  Estreou-se na literatura policial com A Mão que Mata, ao qual se seguiram A Maldição, Crime na Quinta das Lágrimas e Crime na Aldeia.
  
  No seguimento da sua atividade enquanto escritor, dá aulas de Escrita Criativa.
  
  Tem um irmão gémeo.

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