Trás Os Montes

Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro is a historical province of Portugal located in the northeastern corner of the country. [More...]

Miguel Torga

Torga, twice nominated for the Nobel Prize was undoubtedly one of the great writers of our century. He once said ‘the universal is the local without walls’ and although his short stories are set in the rugged mountains of Trás-os-Montes in the Portuguese Northland they transcend narrow geography with their subject matter — human beings and the emotions that drive them, the love and hatred, courage and fear, the greed and (sometimes) the generosity of spirit. Read singly the stories are striking, together the effect is stunning. [more...]

José Saramago

I was born in a family of landless peasants, in Azinhaga, a small village in the province of Ribatejo, on the right bank of the Almonda River, around a hundred kilometres north-east of Lisbon. [more...]