Born in Porto, Filipa Leal has 14 published books (since 2003), among them \"A Cidade L\u00edquida\" and \"O Problema de Ser Norte\", or the most recent ones \"Vem \u00e0 Quinta-feira\" and \"F\u00f3sforos e Metal sobre Imita\u00e7\u00e3o de Ser Humano\", both finalists for the Correntes d\u2019Escritas Prize and semifinalists for the Oceanos Prize. She is published in Spain, Brazil, Colombia, France, and Poland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Graduated in Journalism from the University of Westminster, she holds a Master's degree in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto. She also attended the Balleteatro do Porto, where she took a one-year course in theater training for non-professionals, with Victor Hugo Pontes. In 2013, she returned to the Faculty of Arts of Porto for a screenwriting course. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since 2003, she has regularly participated in poetry recitals. Highlights include the Teatro do Campo Alegre, as well as CCB, Casa Fernando Pessoa, Teatro S\u00e3o Luiz, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Casa da M\u00fasica, among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She is represented in various anthologies in Portugal and abroad. In 2010, one of her poems was exhibited in the Warsaw Metro. In 2012 and 2014, she represented Portugal in literary meetings in Germany \u2013 at the Berlin Poetry Festival 2012, and at the Conference of European Writers 2014. In 2016, her poem \"Hoje, tamb\u00e9m os carros dan\u00e7am\" was part of a European sound installation at the British Library in London. In 2021, the Colombian composer M\u00f3nica Giraldo adapted one of her poems, which she performs on the album \"Hubo un Tiempo\". <\/p>\n\n\n\n
She has been part of some international juries: she was a member of the Oceanos Literature Prize Jury (2018) and the Gabriel Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez Journalism Prize Jury (Colombia, 2019).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Poet, journalist, and screenwriter (notably for the script of the film \"Jogo de Damas\", with director Patr\u00edcia Sequeira \u2013 Winner of Best Screenplay at the Cyprus and Copenhagen Film Festivals; and for the series \"Mulheres Assim\" on RTP1).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Entre 2019 e 2024, apresentou, com Pedro Lamares, o programa de literatura \u201cNada Ser\u00e1 Como Dante\u201d, na RTP2. Nos \u00faltimos 10 anos, colaborou nos programas de televis\u00e3o \u201cC\u00e2mara Clara\u201d, \u201cAgora Literatura\u201d, e \u201cLiteratura Aqui\u201d, tamb\u00e9m na RTP2. Passou pela R\u00e1dio Nova, pelo jornal O Primeiro de Janeiro; colaborou com as revistas \u201cOs Meus Livros\u201d e \u201cPessoa\u201d, entre outras.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Between 2019 and 2024, she presented, alongside Pedro Lamares, the literature program \"Nada Ser\u00e1 Como Dante\" on RTP2. Over the past 10 years, she has collaborated on television programs such as \"C\u00e2mara Clara\", \"Agora Literatura\", and \"Literatura Aqui\", also on RTP2. She has worked with R\u00e1dio Nova, the newspaper O Primeiro de Janeiro; collaborated with magazines such as \"Os Meus Livros\" and \"Pessoa\", among others. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
She has just published the book \"O vestido de noiva\" (Rel\u00f3gio D'\u00c1gua publisher).<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":16530,"template":"","categories":[49],"ano":[9,7],"com-pagina":[],"class_list":["post-16507","artista","type-artista","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pagina_artistas","ano-9","ano-corrente","entry","has-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicfest.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artista\/16507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicfest.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artista"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicfest.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artista"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicfest.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicfest.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicfest.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16507"},{"taxonomy":"ano","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicfest.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ano?post=16507"},{"taxonomy":"com-pagina","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicfest.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/com-pagina?post=16507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}