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.

Pepetela is the literary pseudonym of Artur Carlos Maurício Pestana dos Santos, born on 29th of October 1941 in Benguela (Angola) in a family of Portuguese ancestry. He attended primary school in Benguela, where he had contact with colleagues of different social and racial status. He continued his education at Liceu Diogo Cão in Lubango and later moved to Portugal for higher education. There he attended the Casa dos Estudantes do Império, the cradle of African nationalist movements in Lisbon. When the colonial war broke out, Pepetela was compulsorily conscripted to the Portuguese army to fight in Angola. Instead, he fled Portugal and moved abroad, first to Paris, and later to Algiers. While studying Sociology in Algiers in 1963, Pepetela was approached by the MPLA member Henrique Abranches, who enlisted ...

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 ...