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My favourite writer is Valter Hugo Mãe. He is a Portuguese writer, novelist, editor, poet, artist and singer. He was born on September 25, 1971, in Henrique de Carvalho (now Saurimo), an Angolan city. He spent his childhood in Paços de Ferreira, and in 1980 he moved to Vila do Conde.

He graduated in Law and did a post-graduate course in Modern and Contemporary Portuguese Literature at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto.

Valter Hugo Mãe has been awarded three times so far, in 1999 (Almeida Garrett Prize), 2007 (José Saramago Literary Prize) and 2012 (Portugal Telecom Literature Prize).

My favourite book is Dehumanization, which tells a sad story of an Icelandic girl who loses her twin sister. After her death, the younger sister becomes the reflection of the other, living in solitude. I really like this book because it talks about loneliness, life after death and the longing for those who leave.

In honour of this writer, my school's library was named “Biblioteca Valter Hugo Mãe”.

Matilde Sá

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My favourite writer is Ilse Losa, a Portuguese/German author born to a Jewish family who was forced to leave Germany due to Nazi persecution.  In fact, the Holocaust is a recurring subject in her work.

Ilse Lieblich Losa was born in Germany in 1913 and died in Portugal in 2006. When she was young, she went to Osnabrück High School and Hildesheim High School.

The coming to power of Adolf Hitler and the NSDAP saw the beginning of a process in which Jews were excluded from German society, bullied and persecuted, so she was forced to abandon Nazi Germany in 1934 before her impending deportation to a concentration camp. She came to Portugal and settled in Porto, marrying architect Arménio Losa in 1935 and becoming a Portuguese national.

Throughout her life she wrote novels, short stories, chronicles, children and adolescent literature and essays.

She was awarded several honours and prizes, both Portuguese and German (e.g. Grande Prémio Gulbenkian de Literatura para Crianças e Jovens (1982, 1984), a decoration from the Federal Republic of Germany (Ritterkreuz, 1991).

My favourite book written by Ilse Losa is “O mundo em que eu vivi”, which is about a young girl that lives with her grandparents. This book also describes the persecutions suffered by the Jews  during World War II.

I think you should read this book because I really enjoyed it.

Carolina Marques

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My favourite writer is Stephen King. He has written two hundred books through his entire career, most of them horror stories and thrillers and many of which were adapted to some of the greatest films of all time, such as The Green Mile and The Shining.

Stephen King was born on September 21, 1947, in Portland, Main, USA, and had a rough childhood, due to his dad leaving when he was two years old and his mum having severe financial problems. When still a child, King witnessed a terrible accident: one of his friends was run over by a train. Some people theorize that this accident was what inspired him to write horror stories.

His first ever published book was Carrie, a horror novel about a young girl with psychic powers. This book was very successful, and King won a lot of money, so he kept on writing new novels and books.

It was around this time that he developed an alcohol dependency and started doing drugs. He even admitted that he based the character of Jack Torrance (who is a complete lunatic) from The Shining on himself. A big percentage of his books were written while he was dependent on drugs and that’s why some of them have really disturbing moments, such as the children’s orgy from It.

Happily, his family helped him get rid of his addictions and after a decade of dependency he finally stopped doing drugs and drinking alcohol.

Today he is known as one of the most brilliant writers alive, he has won several awards for his books and he is also my favourite writer, although I have only read about forty Stephen King’s books.

Tiago Santos

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My favourite writer is Rick Riordan.

He was born in San Antonio, Texas, USA, in 1964.

Before becoming a writer he was a middle school teacher.  He writes science fiction and fantasy books and,  in my opinion, his best book is House of Hades. It’s about Greek mythology like almost all of his books.

I like him because I think that in his books difficult situations are very well balanced with humour and sarcasm.

Mafalda Costa

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My favourite writer is Luis Sepúlveda. He died of coronavirus in Oviedo, Spain, on 16 April 2020. He showed the first symptoms of infection at the end of February when he attended Correntes d’Escritas, a literary festival in Póvoa de Varzim, a town in the north of Portugal. At the time he thought it was flu.

Luis Sepúlveda was born in Ovalle, a small city in central Chile, on 4 October 1949.

His father, José Sepúlveda, was a militant of the Chilean Communist Party, and his mother, Ima Calucura, was a nurse of Mapuche descent. After attending highschool in Santiago, he studied theatre production at the National University of Chile.

In 1970, he won “Prémio Casa das Américas” for his first book Pedro Nadie, and was also awarded a five-year scholarship at Moscow Lomonosov University. However, only five months in the Soviet capital, he was expelled from the university for “maintaining contacts with some Soviet dissidents”.

Active member of the Chilean Popular Unit in the 1970s, he had to leave the country after the military coup of Augusto Pinochet. He travelled and worked in Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay and Peru. He lived in Ecuador among the Shuar Indians, participating in a UNESCO study mission. Sepúlveda was, at the time, a friend of Chico Mendes, hero of the defense of the Amazon. He dedicated his greatest success The Old Man Who Read Love Stories to Chico Mendes.  In Nicaragua, he joined the Sandinista brigades. Finally, he emigrated to Germany, where he lived for 14 years and married for the second time, Margarita Seven. After separating, he moved to Paris and then to Gijón, where he renewed his relationship with Carmen Yáñez, a poet whom he had married in Chile before the coup. He remained there the rest of his life.

My favourite book is The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly, which is a sweet story of a cat who promises a dying seagull that he will take care of her egg, care for the baby seagull and teach it to fly. He is an honorable cat and keeps his word, along with the other cats of the port.

I like it because it is a beautiful and touching story about friendship, bravery, accepting diversity … - "[the cats:] learned to appreciate and respect and love someone who's different from us. It's very easy to accept and love those who are like us, but to love someone different is very hard, and you have helped us to do that."

Maria Clara Silva

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My favourite writer is José Saramago. He was born in Azinhaga, Golegã, on 16 November, 1922. He graduated from a technical school and had his first job as a mechanical locksmith. He is one of the most acclaimed writers in the world today. He is the author of numerous novels, including All the Names, Blindness, and The Cave. In 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

His best book, in my opinion, is A maior flor do mundo [The Biggest Flower in the World] , which shows the writer’s environmental awareness and criticism. I like him because he is a very good writer and the first time I read this story even though I was a little girl, I loved it.

Maria Lourenço

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My favourite writer is Paula Pimenta. She was born in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in 1975, and she was one of the most famous writers in the Brazilian language. At the age of sixteen, she embarked for a six-month exchange in the United States. Back in Brazil, she started a journalism course but she didn't finish it. She graduated in Advertising.

Her best book, in my opinion, is Fazendo meu filme [Shooting my life’s script]. It’s about Estefânia, better known as Fani among her friends, a teenager like many others. Fani's life is turned upside-down when she gets the chance to go abroad for a year on a student exchange programme.

I really like this writer and once I start reading her books, I can’t stop because she writes really beautiful romantic stories.

Sofia Moreira

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My favourite writer is Paula Pimenta.

Paula is a Brazilian author. She was born in Belo Horizonte, in 1975. In 2001 she published her first poem book called Confissão. She went to school in Brazil and then studied advertising before moving to London where she wrote the first volume of the novel series Fazendo meu filme. It became a big success as more than 500,000 copies were sold in 2005. In 2011, she wrote another novel series - A minha vida fora de série, and the next year she became one of the 100 most influential people in Brazil.

My favourite book is A minha vida fora de série. It’s about a girl named Priscila who has some problems because her parents divorced and she needs to move to another city with her mother, which means that she needs to leave her friends and school. She has some adaptation problems but then she meets new people who become her friends and it’s in this city that she finds the love of her life.

I would highly recommend this book if you enjoy reading romances!

Inês Salazar

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My favourite writer is Valter Hugo Mãe, who was born in Angola on September 25, 1971.

In 1980, he moved to Vila do Conde, close to where I live.

In 2007, Valter Hugo Mãe won the José Saramago Prize in Literature for his novel o remorso de baltazar serapião.

The book I like most is a máquina de fazer espanhóis [The Machine for Making Spaniards], which is a novel. Although this book is a story about old age, it is also about Portugal, particularly Portugal’s recent history, including the dictatorship and its liberation from the dictatorship.

What I like most about this book is that although I am young, when I read it I know what happened in the past, all told in a more animated way.

If you are looking for a great experience with a book, this is the perfect one to jump into.

João Almeida

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My favourite writer is José Mauro de Vasconcelos.

José de Vasconcelos was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on 26 February, 1920. His parents had so few resources that he, as a child, had to move to the northeast region of the country, where he was raised by some relatives. Entering the Faculty of Medicine in Natal, he left university in his second year and returned to Rio de Janeiro in search of better opportunities.

He is my favourite writer because of his book My Sweet Orange Tree (Meu Pé de Laranja Lima). This Brazilian classic is based on the author’s own difficult childhood in a suburb of Rio de Janeiro. This moving story blends the bitter hardship of poverty with the sweetness of finding things that make life worth living, that’s why I love this book so much.

If you are looking for a great experience with a book, this is the perfect one to jump into.

Beatriz Vasco

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I think my favourite writer is Enid Blyton. She and her books are super famous around the world, in fact they have been translated into 90 different languages.

She was born on 11 August 1897, in East Dulwich, South London. She attended St Christophe’s School in Beckenham when she realised she was a good writer. After she finished school she started working as a teacher at Ipswich High School, but she continued writing in her free time. Throughout the years her writing and her books became more and more popular. She wrote mystery and adventure stories, poems, plays and educational books for children. Her most famous books are Noddy, The Famous Five and The Secret Seven series of books. My favourite one is The Famous Five.

My dad used to read it when he was my age, he had all The Famous Five collection, the antique one. We still have that collection, so I decided to read it too. As they say “old, but gold”. And it is extremely interesting! This series of children's adventure novels is about a group of four children and a dog who find excitement and interesting adventures wherever they go.

I really like Enid Blyton, because she is such a good writer!

Mariana Moreira

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My favourite writer is David Levithan. He was born in New Jersey, in 1972. He graduated from Brown University in 1994 where he double majored in English and political science.

He published his first book, Boy Meets Boy, in 2003 and has written fiction, fantasy, and supernatural fiction since then.

His most famous books are Every Day, Will Grayson, Will Grayson and Boy Meets Boy.

His best book, in my opinion, is Every Day, the story of a teen named A, who since birth has woken up in the body and the life of a new person every morning.

I like this author because of this particular book, which is an awe-inspiring, thought-provoking reminder that love reaches beyond physical appearances or gender.

Maria Clara Tomé

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My favourite writer is Valter Hugo Mãe. He was born in Saurimo, Angola, on 25 September 1971, spent his childhood in Paços de Ferreira,  and in 1980 he moved to Vila do Conde. In addition to being a writer, he is an editor, visual artist, television presenter and singer.

He graduated in Law and did a post-graduate course in Modern and Contemporary Portuguese Literature at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto. He was awarded the José Saramago Literary Prize in 2007, and the Portugal Telecom Literature Prize in 2012.

My favourite book is A Desumanização [Dehumanization], a novel about life, death and the feeling of loss. It tells the story of a girl, Eudora, who at the age of 11 loses her twin sister (Sigridur). Sad about the death of her partner, she has to learn to deal with death,

and the chaos it causes. At home, her mother goes into such a denial process that she finds

Mutilation a  way to deal with the pain of losing her daughter. On the other hand, the airborne father tries it all to help his wife and daughter, but it is clear throughout the story that he also needs help.

I love this book because I think it’s one of those books that no one is able to remain indifferent to the plot and how it unfolds.

What I like most about Valter Hugo Mãe is his writing, and I think you are going to love it too!

Frederica Santos

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My favourite writer is Carlos Ruiz Zafón, a Spanish novelist.

He was born in Barcelona, on 25 September, 1964, and has been living in Los Angeles, USA, since 1993. While developing his career as a writer, he spent a few years writing screenplays in this city.

My favourite book is Marina, which was published in 1999. Marina is a supernatural mystery novel that takes place in Barcelona. The protagonists (main characters) find many trails, discover mystery places, abandoned mansions and gardens, get anonymous papers, conduct interviews. What completes the book is the mixture of adventure, innocent and pure love and mystery. These are the main features of Carlos Zafón’s books.

Marina was my first experience in this writer’s world, and I fell in love with all the characters in this book and the way Zafón makes them seem so real. This writer made me understand the purpose of the rising action  in a story.

Helena Azevedo

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My favourite writer is definitely Stephen King.

Stephen Edwin King is a North American writer. He was born in Portland, Maine, on September 21st, 1947.

When he was just two years old, his parents split up, and his mother had to raise him and his brother David by herself, sometimes under a lot  of financial difficulties.

When he was just a child, Stephen witnessed a horrible accident, one of his friends got stuck in a train track and was run over by a train. Lots of people say that that experience affected him psychologically and inspired some of his darker novels.

My favourite Stephen King’s book is It, which was adapted for the big screen. It, a horror novel from 1986, follows the experiences of seven children as they are terrorized by an evil entity that exploits the fears of its victims to disguise itself while hunting its prey. “It”, an evil without a name, primarily appears in the form of Pennywise the Dancing Clown to attract its preferred prey of young children.

I really like Stephen King’s books because I think they’re really well written.

Constança Braga

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My favourite writer is Mário de Carvalho. He was born in Lisbon, Portugal, on September 25, 1944.

He was part of the movement against the dictator Salazar. While in the army, he was jailed, tortured and eventually escaped to Sweden where he was granted political asylum. After the Carnation Revolution, in 1974, he returned to Portugal and praticised law for many years. His first book of short stories, published in 1981, marked the beginning of a successful writing career. He was a member of the board of direction of the Portuguese Writers Association, from 1984 to 1988.  He won the 1996 Pegasus Prize for Literature. He has published several novels, story collections and plays and has been widely translated.

I like him because his books are versatile and span diverse genres.

My favourite book is Casos do beco das sardinheiras.

A funfact is that his two daughters, Rita Taborda Duarte and Ana Margarida Carvalho, are also writers.

Andreia Ventura

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My favourite writer is J.K.Rowling. She is a British author, film producer, television producer, screenwriter, and philanthropist. She was born in Yate, Gloucestershire, England, on 31 July 1965.

Her first Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, was published by Bloomsbury in 1997 to immediate popular and critical acclaim. Seven further best-selling books, three companion books, a playscript and two screenplays have since followed. The Harry Potter books have been translated into over 80 languages, won multiple awards, and sold more than 500 million copies worldwide, becoming the best-selling book series in history.

In my opinion, the Harry Potter film series isn’t as good as the Harry Potter novels because the books are more magical and deeper than what the movies can ever achieve.

My favourite book is the first one - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, but I totally think that you should read the whole series.

I really like J. K. Rowling because she has a vivid imagination and she is an awesome writer.

Ana Silva

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My favourite writer is J.K. Rowling.

J.K. Rowling was born in 1965, in Yate, UK. She attended Wyedean Comprehensive School and then went on to study French and Classics at the University of Exeter. Her Classics studies would come in very handy later when she was thinking up all the spells in Harry Potter, some of which are based on Latin!

In my opinion, her best work is the Harry Potter series which is about the adventures of a young wizard.

I like her because when I read her books, a lovely fantasy world enters my mind.

Beatriz Rocha

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