José Luandino Vieira (born José Vieira Mateus da Graça on May 4th, 1935) is an Angolan writer of short fiction and novels. He was devoted to Angolan independence, resulting in his arrest in 1961 after an interview with the BBC in which he disclosed secret lists of deserters from the Portuguese army fighting in Africa. He would remain in jail for eleven years. After the Angolan independence, Luandino Vieira was nominated for various positions: organized and directed the Popular Television of Angola from 1975 to 1978, directed the Department of Revolutionary Orientation MPLA until 1979; organized and directed the Angolan Institute of Cinema, 1979-1984. In the field of literature, he was one of the founders of the Union of Angolan Writers in 1975, and was its General Secretary since the end of 1980.He was also deputy secretary general of the Association of Afro-Asian Writers, from 1979 to 1984, and later became its secretary general ...

José Eduardo Agualusa Alves da Cunha, born on 13th of December 1960, in Huambo, Angola, is a journalist and writer. He studied agronomy and forestry in Lisbon, before becoming a well-known name in world literature. His acute perception and capacity of questioning the roots and cultural richness of Angolan history has offered the readers such novels as A Conjura (1989) [The Conspiracy], A Feira dos Assombrados (1992) [The Market of the Damned], Estação das Chuvas (1996) [The Rainy Season], Nação Crioula (1997) [Creole], and O Vendedor de Passados (2006) [The Book of Chameleons]. His travel writing includes Um Estranho em Goa (2000) [A Stranger in Goa], Fronteiras Perdidas, contos para viajar (1999) [Lost Borders, traveling tales], among other works as Lisboa Africana (1993), a collaborative project on Lisbon’s African community. He currently spends ...

Albertino Bragança, writer and politician from São Tomé, was born in 1944. He got his degree in Electrotechnical Engineering at Coimbra University. In 1975 he moved back to his home country and since then carried various public duties. He was Minister of Defense and Minister of Foreign Affairs. He is as well one of the founding members of the National Union of Writers and Artists of São Tome and Príncipe. His literary work contains of three books: Rosa de Riboque e Outros Contos (Rose from Riboque and Other Stories, 1985), Um Clarão Sobre a Baía (A Flash Over the Bay, 2004) and Aurélia de Vento (Aurélia Made of Wind, 2011). In 2005 he published an ethnographic work A Música Popular Santomense (The Popular Music of São Tomé). ...