Odete Semedo (Maria Odete da Costa Semedo) born in Bissau on 7th of November 1959 is a Guinean writer and researcher. She has a degree in Modern Languages and Literature by Nova University in Lisbon and a PhD by PUC Minas. In her home country, she held several positions in public and political office. She was president of the National Commission for UNESCO – Bissau, Minister of Health and Minister of Culture and now she is Minister of National Education. She was co-founder of Tcholona, Letters, Art and Culture Magazine. She translated to creole the script of Flora Gomes's film Olhos Azuis de Yonta (Yonta's Blue Eyes). Her short stories and poems were published in newspapers and magazines in Guinea-Bissau and abroad. By now she published Entre o Ser e ...

Tony Tcheka (António Soares Lopes Júnior) born on 21st of December 1951 in Bissau is a Guinean journalist and writer, considered to be one of the most important names of Guinean literature. He is one of the founder members of National Union of Artists and Writers of Guinea-Bissau and his poems were published in many anthologies in Guinea, Brazil and Europe. As a journalist he worked for the RDN – National Radio of Guinea-Bissau, was editor-in-chief of a newspaper “Nô Pintcha” and a founder of its cultural and literary supplement “Bantabá”. As an analyst and correspondent Tcheka collaborated with BBC, Voz da América, Voz da Alemanha, Tanjug, and in Portugal, with Público, press agency ANOP, RTP-África and TSF. He published two books of poems: Noites de Insónia na Terra Adormecida (Nights ...

Waldir Araújo, born in 1971, is a journalist and writer from Guinea-Bissau. In 1985 he won the literary prize of Portuguese Cultural Center in Bissau and in the same year moved to Portugal where he did his secondary and university studies. He works as a journalist since 1996 and currently he is a member of the RDP África staff. In 2004, after winning a Scholarship for Literary Creation by the National Portuguese Culture Center, he spent some months with the Rabelados community at the Santiago Island in Cape Verde. He publishes his poems and short stories in newspapers and magazines in Portugal and Brasil. In 2008 he published the collection of short stories Admirável Diamante Bruto e Outros Contos (Admirable Rough Diamond and Other Stories, 2008). His short story “Sapateiro ...