It's time to catch up on your reading. It's time to... Read Portugal.

Find your favourite authors, review the stories that touched you in some way. Discover other worlds and other visions of this world. Let the Portuguese authors be with you for now. You already know some of them, but you’ll be surprised by others.

Get inspired by the sentence and discover... the writer, the work, how the Portuguese culture is present in the writing, and how Portuguese literature is universal and speaks of what exists in each one of us.

Look for these authors at your online bookstore. If you want to know which books are published in your country, you can search the online catalogue of the Directorate-General for Book, Archives and Libraries.

Good readings!

Life is whatever we make it. The traveller is the journey. What we see is not what we see but who we are.
Fernando Pessoa
The Book of Disquiet, 1982

The world? What is the world, oh my Love? The garden of my verses all in bloom.
Florbela Espanca
Charneca em Flor, 1931

Nothing gives the idea of the constancy of character like the firmness of walking.
Eça de Queiroz
Uma Campanha Alegre, 1890

Through seas man never sailed before
Luís Vaz de Camões
Os Lusíadas, 1572

The end of one journey is simply the start of another. You have to see what you missed the first time.
José Saramago
Journey to Portugal, 1981

*Note: Free translation was used in the citations by Portuguese authors.