Margarida Fontes was born in São Filipe, Island of Fogo on 30th of September 1975. She is a Capeverdian TV journalist and poet. She got a degree in Communication by Federal University of Bahia, Brazil. She works for the Capeverdian TV and was director of the institution. She is a journalist in the Information Department and produces cultural documentaries. She is the author of the documentary series Monumentos e Sítios (Monuments and Places) and produced and presented the series Claridade Incandescente (Incandescent Clarity) about modern literature in Cape Verde. In 2014 she published her first book of poetry De Lírios.

Oswaldo Osório is a literary pseudonym of Osváldo Alcântara Medina Custódio, Capeverdean writer and poet who was born in 1937 in Mindelo, São Vicente Island. Along his literary activity, he performed many different professional duties. He was the president of Syndicate Union and, in the area of culture, he was the director of the cultural journal Seló of which he was one of the co-funders. Due to his political activity during the Salazar regime in Portugal, he was imprisoned twice. His poems were published in many anthologies in Cape Verde and abroad. Among his work one can find Caboverdeamadamente Construção Meu Amor (Caboverdeamadamente Construction My Love 1975), O Cântico do Habitante: precedido de 2 gestas (The Song of the Inhabitant: Preceded by 2 Epic Poems 1977), Clar(a)idade assombrada (Clarity/Clear Age ...

Vera Duarte, a Capeverdean lawyer and writer was born in Mindelo on 2nd of October 1952. As a lawyer with a degree by the University of Lisbon, in her homeland she has performed various public and political duties. She was a judge of the Supreme Court of Justice, Counselor of the President of the Republic and Minister of Education. In 1995 she was awarded with North-South Prize of the Council of Europe for defending human rights. She is a member of the African Commission of Human and People's Rights and International Commission of Jurists. She started her literary career in 1993 and is now one of its most important feminine voices in Cape Verde. Her novel A Candidada (The Candidate, 2003) won the Sonangol Prize in Literature. Till the day ...