(Brazil, 1982)

He is a writer and journalist. With the book Tinta Branca, he won the 2023 São Paulo Prize for Literature in the “best debut novel" category and was a finalist for the 2023 Jabuti Prize in the debut writer category. He graduated in journalism from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, where he also studied literature. He has a postgraduate degree from the Vera Cruz Institute, in São Paulo, in the writers training course. As a journalist, he worked for 16 years at Rede Globo and also collaborated in media such as Piauí Magazine and the Jornal O Globo. He was born in Curitiba in 1982 and currently lives in Porto Alegre.

Amanda Julieta is a writer, journalist and literary researcher. She has a degree in social communication with a specialization in journalism from the Jorge Amado University Center; with a master's degree and a doctorate from the Graduate Program in Literature and Culture of the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA). She is the author of the book Dandara (Paralelo13S, 2020), winner of the Pretas Potências Prize (2023) in the category literature; Tem poeta na casa? Mulheres negras, poetry slam and insurgências (Is there a poet at home? Black women, slam poetry and insurgencies) (Paralelo13S, 2023) and participates in the collection of short stories Abrindo a boca, mostrando línguas (Opening his mouth, showing tongues, Paralelo13S, 2021).

She published the LGBTQIAPN+-themed short story “Apocalipse" in Revista Manifesto (2023). As a literary researcher she published essays in the books Leituras de Etnicidades (Segundo Selo, 2022) and Literatura y contemporaneidad: estudios de literatura afrobrasileña y africana en Brasil (Schreiben, 2023), in addition to the article “Minha arma-palavra:  el activismo intelectual de las mujeres negras en el slam de poesía”, in Revell magazine (UEMS, 2021).

She has participated in several literary festivals as a guest writer, such as Mostra Literária de Salvador (2021), MoLiD Molidê – Mostra Literatura com Dendê – Mostra Literatura com Dendê (2021), Festa Literária Arte e Identidade (2022), Odu Xirê de Artes Negras (2022), Festa Literária Internacional do Pelourinho – Flipelô (2022, 2023), International Literary Festival of Cachoeira – Flica ( 2022), Casa Insubmissa de Mulheres Negras (2022), Literary Festival of Lençóis – Flilençóis (2023), International Literary Festival of Praia do Forte -FLIPF (2024).

She also presented works at different academic congresses and seminars: IV International Seminar Undoing Gender (2019), UFBA Research, Teaching and Extension Congress (2019, 2021, 2022), Student Seminar on Research in Letters (2020, 2021, 2022), ABRALIC International Meeting: shared/shared worlds (2022), among others.

(Brazil, 1980)

Djamila Ribeiro holds a degree in Philosophy and a master’s degree in Political Philosophy from the Federal University of São Paulo. She is the coordinator of Feminismos Plurais, which includes the Feminismos Plurais Space, the Feminismos Plurais online platform, and the Sueli Carneiro editorial label, which publishes the Feminismos Plurais book collection.
She is the author of the books Lugar de Fala (Jandaíra/Feminismos Plurais), Quem tem medo do Feminismo Negro?, Pequeno Manual Antirracista, and Cartas para minha avó (Companhia das Letras), as well as Diálogos Transatlânticos (Editions Anacaona), which have been translated into several languages. She is also a guest professor at New York University (NYU) and the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP).
Since 2022, she has been a member of the Paulista Academy of Letters, occupying chair No. 28, and serves as a board member for the Padre Anchieta Foundation, the Pinacoteca of São Paulo, and the University of São Paulo’s Fund for students racial and gender equity. She is a columnist for the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo and served as the Deputy Secretary for Human Rights of São Paulo in 2016. She was awarded the Prince Claus Award in 2019 by the Kingdom of the Netherlands and was recognized by the BBC as one of the 100 most influential women in the world.
In 2020, she won the Jabuti Prize, the most prestigious literary award in Brazil, in the Humanities category for Pequeno Manual Antirracista. In 2021, she became the first Brazilian in history to be honored by the BET Awards, granted by the African American community in the United States. In 2023, she received the Franco-German Prize for Human Rights.

(Brazil, 1984)

José Henrique Bortoluci was born in Jaú in 1984. He has a BA in International Relations and an MA in Social History from the University of São Paulo, as well as an MA and a PhD in Sociology from the University of Michigan, where he lectured and was a Fulbright fellow. He is a professor of Sociology at Fundação Getúlio Vargas in São Paulo, where his lectures and research revolve around Brazilian politics, social theory, democracy and social movements. What is Mine, his debut book, will be published in ten languages by prestigious publishers such as Fitzcarraldo, Grasset, Iperborea, Aufbau, Literatura Random House, Norstedts and Aschehoug.

Brazilian writer, journalist and translator. Her childhood and adolescence were spent between São Paulo and Mexico City.

She is the author of three novels:  Onça Preta (Benvira, 2013), Acre (Todavía, 2017) and Degelo (Todavía, 2023) -, translated into Spanish (La Huerta Grande, Spain). Acre was a finalist for the Jabuti Prize in the novel category, the most prestigious in Brazil.

With his first book, Mil-folhas (Cosac Naify, 2009), a gastronomic journey through the history of sweets, won the Bologna Ragazzi International Prize in 2011. 

She studied visual arts at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. Back in Brazil, she worked for Folha de S. Paulo for years, covering mainly contemporary art topics. She currently writes a monthly column for this newspaper. 

She lives in New York, where she earned a master's degree in creative writing at New York University. She is working on her fourth novel.

She was born in São Paulo in 1985. She is the author of Fadas e copos no canto da casa (Fairies and glasses in the corner of the house), Se deus me chamar não vou (If God calls me, I will not go) - finalist of the Jabuti Prize 2020, and É sempre a hora da nossa morte amém (It is always the time of our death amen). With Não fossem as sílabas do sábado (If it weren't for the Saturday syllables), she won the 2023 São Paulo Prize for Literature, in the category of best novel.

(Brazil, 1984)

She is a writer and illustrator, as well as an actress and filmmaker. In 2018, she created, in collaboration with the NGO Vídeo nas Aldeias, the collection Um Dia na Aldeia (Sesi). Her books Akukusia (Sesi) and Minha Família Enauenê (FTD) received the international White Ravens seal from the Munich Library and Highly Recommended by the National Children's and Youth Book Foundation (FNLIJ). The latter was a semifinalist of the Jabuti Prize, and voted best children's book by the Association of Writers of Children's and Youth Books in 2019. In 2021 she published the illustrated book Amor, o Coelho (Caixote) and the novel, Terrapreta, (Editora 34), winner of the São Paulo Prize for Literature in the first novel category, and of the Lessa Origins Prize, of the FNLIJ.
She is the director and screenwriter of the short films Hospedeira (2014) and of the documentaries made with the indigenous people enawenê nawê The Era of Lareokotô (2018) and Yaõkwa, image and memory (2020). The latter, made in collaboration with Vincent Carelli, was the winner of the É Tudo Verdade - International Documentary Festival in the Brazilian short film category and the Canal Brasil Acquisition Award in 2021 and the Grand Prize of Brazilian Cinema in 2022.
She is one of the idealizers of the book Ideias para adiar o fim do mundo (2019) and signs the research and organization of A vida não é útil (2020) and Futuro Ancestral (2022), the three by the indigenous thinker Ailton Krenak (Companhia das Letras). In 2022 she published the children's book Menina Mandioca (Mini Pallas), in 2023 O Caminho para a Casa de Barro (Baião) in collaboration with the indigenous artist Xadalu, and in 2024 Kuján e os meninos sabidos, with Ailton Krenak.
She is currently working on her second book, O Mundo Fora da Pedra.