An Unexpected Light

José de Sousa Saramago, (November 1922-June 2010), was a Portuguese writer and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature. His works, some of which can be seen as allegories, commonly present subversive perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the theopoetic human factor. More than two million copies of Saramago's books have been sold in Portugal alone and his work has been translated into 25 languages. He was a founding member of the National Front for the Defense of Culture in Lisbon in 1992, and co-founder with Orhan Pamuk, of the European Writers' Parliament (EWP).

Margaret Jull Costa is a translator of Portuguese and Spanish fiction and poetry, including the works of José Saramago, Eça de Queiroz, Fernando Pessoa, Paulo Coelho, Bernardo Atxaga, Carmen Martín Gaite, Javier Marías, Angela Vallvey, and Luisa Valenzuela.. Her translations have been awarded the International Dublin Literary Award, the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize (four times), and the TLS Translation Prize, among many others. She lives in England

Armando Fonseca studied philosophy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He works as an illustrator across different media: illustrated books, albums, covers, press work. Armando's work has been exhibited in Mexico and abroad and has been recognized at the Sharjah Children's Reading Festival, the Bratislava International Biennial of Illustration, Iberoamerica Ilustra, the Illustrators Show of the Bologna Fair, and at the Shanghai Book Fair. He created the collective CAJA with the illustrators Juan Palomino and Amanda Mijangos.