Catarina Pombo Nabais holds a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy (University of Lisbon) and a PhD in Philosophy (Université Paris 8, under the supervision of Jacques Rancière). She is the author of Gilles Deleuze: Philosophie et Littérature (Paris: Harmattan, 2013), and of the English edition published in the USA (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2020), entitled Deleuze’s Literary Theory. The laboratory of his philosophy. She is co-author, with Boris Groys, of Towards Self-Design. Philosophical conversations (Coimbra University Press, 2022) and author of Para chegar ao branco último da palavra. Conversa com Rui Nunes e Sérgio Pombo (Officium Lectionis, 2025). She has edited four books, including Processos criativos nas ciências e nas artes. A questão da participação pública (Afrontamento, 2021). A guest lecturer at FMH/University of Lisbon and honoured as one of the ‘101 Women in Science’ by Ciência Viva, Catarina Pombo Nabais is also a curator, having organised exhibitions in museums and galleries, and founding Oficina Impossível, an art gallery and studio space for Portuguese and international artists.

Rui Nunes, a Portuguese writer and professor of philosophy, was born in November 1945. He graduated with a degree in Philosophy from the University of Lisbon and embarked on a career as a writer alongside his work as a philosophy teacher at Rainha D. Amélia Secondary School in Lisbon.
In the 1960s he wrote for newspapers, though many of his pieces were censored. 
After overcoming many difficulties, he published his first book, As Margens, in 1968.
Imbuing his writing with a distinctive voice, themes such as pain, illness and death are recurring motifs in his books.
An admirer of Russian literature, particularly Tolstoy, Rui Nunes also appreciates other art forms, notably Bergman’s films and music from the Baroque period, jazz and, above all, the twelve-tone music of Xenakis, Schoenberg and Pierre Boulez, acknowledging a profound connection between his own writing processes and the musical composition techniques of these composers. 
Awarded the Portuguese Pen Club Fiction Prize in 1992 for his book Osculatriz, his subsequent works have been consistently well-received by literary critics.
For his book Grito, published in 1998, he received the Grand Prize for Novels and Novellas from the Portuguese Writers’ Association (APE). Manuel Frias, a member of the jury, described Rui Nunes as: ‘one of the brightest stars in the Portuguese literary constellation – so often obscured by the clouds of the facile and the obvious.’
In 2001, he was awarded the Critics’ Prize by the Portuguese Centre of the International Association of Literary Critics for his book Rostos.
Uma Viagem no Outono, which won the Diógenes National Poetry Prize in 2013.
The book Nocturno Europeu (2014) received the SPA/RTP Prize for Best Work of Narrative Fiction in 2015.