Luísa Costa Gomes

Luísa Costa Gomes was born in Lisboa in 1954. She graduated in Philosophy, taught at secondary school level and led postgraduate courses in Literary Writing at Universidade Lusófona and Universidade Nova. She writes novels, short stories, columns and plays, including Nunca Nada de Ninguém, and the libretto for Philip Glass's opera Corvo Branco. Since 2010, she has worked with Teatro do Bairro in Lisboa as a translator, playwright and dramaturg. Between 2000 and 2007, she edited FICÇÕES (a short-story magazine). She has translated Shakespeare, Kleist, Gertrude Stein, Alfred Jarry, Genet, Gombrowicz, etc. She has published eight novels and O Defunto Elegante, co-written with Abel Barros Baptista; eight short-story collections, the most recent of which, Triunfo do Triunfo, is a selection of stories (2026); and more than twenty original texts for the theatre, some published as books, such as De Passagem, and others as e-books. She has created numerous dramaturgical works. She has written books for children and for everyone, including Trava-Línguas in 2006, illustrated by Jorge Nesbitt, and the most recent, Divertimentos, May 2026, illustrated by the same artist.