Luís Ricardo Duarte

Luís Ricardo Duarte has been a cultural journalist for more than 25 years. He contributes to the newspaper Público, following two decades at Jornal de Letras. He was born in Lisbon in 1977 and grew up in Setúbal. He graduated in History of Art from the Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, FLUL, where he edited the newspaper Os Fazedores de Letras. He undertook further training in Literature, also at FLUL and at the University of Coimbra, and in Journalism at CENJOR. He has worked to promote books and reading in bookshops and schools. He is the creator of the podcast Verdes Anos, about writers' first books, the author of the illustrated volume O Mundo Fantástico da Arte através dos Tempos and of four books on the history of Portugal. He reads to write and writes to read