Paulina Chiziane was born in Manjacaze, in the southern province of Gaza, in 1955, in a chope family. In her early childhood, she moved to Lourenço Marques to study in a catholic school, where she learned Portuguese. During the anti-colonial struggle carried out by FRELIMO, she joined a youth liberation group. After the independence, she worked in the Ministry of Health and in the Ministry of Agriculture. In 1985 she joined the Red Cross to help people during the post-independence conflicts that were affecting Mozambique. Chiziane’s career as a writer started in 1990 when she published the novel Balada de Amor ao Vento [Ballad of the Love to Wind]. Since then, she published four novels Ventos do Apocalipse [Winds of the Apocalypse] (1993), O Sétimo Juramento [The Seventh Oath] (2000), Niketche ...

Germano Almeida, born in 1945 on Boavista Island, is a Capeverdian writer, journalist and advocate. He was awarded a degree in law by the University of Lisbon and now lives and practices advocacy in Mindelo, São Vicente Island. An important figure of Capeverdian culture, he was one of the founders of the magazine “Ponto & Vírgula” (with Leão Lopes and Rui Figueiredo), newspaper “Aguaviva” and the publishing house Ilhéu Editora. He collaborates as well with the Portuguese newspaper “Público”. His work is translated into several foreign languages. By now he published O Dia das Calças Roladas (The Day of Rolled Up Pants,1982), O Meu Poeta (My Poet,1989), O Testamento do Sr. Napumoceno da Silva Araújo (The Last Will of Mr. Napomuceno da Silva Araújo, 1991), Estórias de Dentro ...

Filinto Elísio Correia e Silva was born in 1961 in Praia, Cape Verde. A professional librarian and business manager, he is as well a poet, chronicler and publisher. In the past, he taught in Somerville in the United States of America and was a counselor of the Minister of Culture in Cape Verde. In 2013, together with the Brazilian chronicler Márcia Souto, he founded the publishing house Rosa de Porcelana. He is the author of O Lado de Cá da Rosa (This Side Of the Rose, 1995), Prato do Dia (Meal of the Day, 2001, chronicles), O Inferno do Riso (The Hell of the Laughter, 2001), Das Frutas Serenadas (Fruit Serenades, 2007), Li Cores & Ad Vinhos (I Read Colours & Ad Wines, 2009), Me_xendo no baú. Vasculhando o U (Scavenging the chest. Trawling the U, 2011).