Isabel Fontes is a Lisbon-born writer based in London, author of three books in Portuguese, with work published internationally. She focuses on the emotional textures of everyday life and human connection.
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For a long time, I thought I began writing because I wanted to be a writer. Today I know that isn’t true. I began writing because I was a reader — and because, long before I understood what “technique”, “style” or “publishing” meant, I already understood something simpler and de…
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When I started working at that company, it was raining — not a violent rain, but one of those quiet, persistent drizzles that seem to follow you everywhere. I had come from another city, another life, carrying with me nothing more ambitious than the wish to begin again. He …
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