Writers in and on Portugal

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  Books on Portugal

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Portugal Expat Authors

  Rudi James

  Gabrielle Collison

  John Sutton

  John Trueman

Getting a book published is a dream many people harbour. Though in reality it is a small percentage of writers who have the determination, imagination and tenacity to put pen to paper and the courage to survive the countless rejection letters to get their words in print.

There are though many writers in Portugal, of both Expat and native origins who have been brave enough to endure years of writer's block to find the inspiration to overcome the hurdle of getting into print either while they have resided in this small, Iberian country or have made it their subject.

Through the years many famous authors and poets have spent time in Portugal utilising the laid back atmosphere and geniality from their hosts to put their thoughts onto paper. Notable among these are the romantic Poet Lord Byron, who was a frequent visitor to Sintra.

Award winning crime writer Robert Wilson also found Sintra the perfect place to perfect his prose, basing two of his novels in Portugal. As his novels grew in popularity so did the number of visitors to his adopted town and he and his family have since moved inland to the Alentejo.

Nobel prize winner Jose Saramago, from the small central Portugal town of Azinhaga, wrote countless novels and plays as well as for Portuguese television.

World famous author JK Rowling lived in Northern Portugal, teaching English as a foreign language, while she worked on the first draft of her phenomenally successfully Harry Potter Trilogy.

Portugal does offer the budding author the solace to write, though there are many temptations to leave the manuscript in the study, below we have highlighted a few new published authors who have found the time to write when they have lived in Portugal.