The writers Maria João Lopo de Carvalho and Manuela Ribeiro and the illustrator Paulo Galindro will visit, from the 27th to the 31st of March, the school libraries of Portimão, in an initiative of the Reading Week.
The guests will talk about the «characters and adventures of their stories, while stimulating the students' curiosity and desire to read», says the Portimão Council.
For this year's edition, one of the guests invited by the Municipal Library of Portimão will be the children's literature writer Maria João Lopo de Carvalho, with more than 70 titles edited, including novels, chronicle books, school manuals and books for children and young people, many within the framework of the National Reading Plan.
The writer will visit schools in Portimão from the 27th to the 31st of March.
The author’s first bestseller, “Virada do Avesso”, was published by Oficina do Livro in 2000, and the writer is a regular presence in the media and frequently visits schools from North to South.
Born in 1962, Maria João Lopo de Carvalho has a degree in Modern Languages and Literature from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, was a Portuguese and English teacher, created the first extracurricular English school for younger students and worked as a copywriter in advertising.
The writer Manuela Ribeiro was also invited, who will be in Portimão on the 30th and 31st of March to share with the little students details about her youth novels “Horas de Acordar” and “Eu sou bom mas não me brag”, or the collections “Miguel and Ricardo’s Adventures” and “For the Little Ones” (whose titles “A Plantinha dos meu Pais” and “História que ha de Ser” are part of the lists of the National Reading Plan, being recommended to support Education projects for Citizenship – 1st/2nd years), not forgetting the book of poems “A letter, a thousand words” and “Verses for boys who always eat all of their soup”.
Born in Caldas da Rainha, where she was born in 1951, Manuela Ribeiro holds a degree in Germanic Studies from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon, was a Portuguese, English and German teacher, and translated several works of a literary, artistic and technical nature for the Círculo de Leitores, Edições 70, Editorial Teorema and Relógio d'Água.
Finally, the illustrator Paulo Galindro, will visit some schools in the municipality's groupings between the 28th and 31st of March, to address the work done in partnership with some of the most important national and international writers, such as Luís Sepúlveda, António Mota or David Machado, and which earned him several distinctions.
Born in 1970, Paulo Galindro has a degree in architecture, regularly participating as an illustrator in actions promoted by libraries, schools, universities and kindergartens.
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