
TEXTS Bárbara Galvão
ILLUSTRATIONS Danuta Wojciechowska (coordenation)
DESIGN Lupa Design, Danuta Wojciechowska e Mariana Fortes
REVISION OF TEXTS IN PORTUGUESE Clara Boléo
TRANSLATION AND REVISION TO FRENCH AND ENGLISH KennisTranslations (Sophie Enderlin, Dominic Zugai, Ana Yokochi, Marina Roger)
EDITION Lupa Design
BOOK TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Format: 16,5 X 23 cm (hardcover)
Number of pages: 56 + cover
4/4 Color printing
Support:

Câmara Municipal de Vila do Bispo

Alagoas, Figos e Amêndoas, Lda.
Biographical notes

Bárbara Galvão, was born in Belas, Sintra, in April 1949. She lived her childhood and adolescence in Lagos, having done her primary studies in Lagos and her secondary studies in Portimão. As her entire family was from Lagos, she was always very close to the western Algarve, spending many of his holidays in family properties in Lagos and Vila do Bispo. In the early 1980s, she taught at schools in the western Algarve and lived in a family farm in Luz, Lagos, where she made pioneering experiments in organic farming, with the support of Jean-Claude. She was one of the first members of the Agrobio Association. With a degree in Romanic Philology from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon, she did a master degree in fairy tales, was a secondary school teacher and internship advisor between 1971 and 1991. She published several articles, some of which in the Jornal de Educação. She was the author of the book Prison for Women, published by Europress in 1992. She died in June 2020.

Danuta Wojciechowska, responsible for the direction of the atelier Lupa Design, has a degree in Communication Design at the Zurich Superior School of Design, with a postgraduate degree in Education through Art at Emerson College, England. She lives in Lisbon since 1985 having met Bárbara Galvão in Western Algarve where the narratives take place. Specialized in the creation and editing of content aimed at the youngest, she illustrated more than 60 books, games and school manuals. Awarded, among others, with the National Illustration Award (2003), she was distinguished as one of the “Women Creators of Culture” (2014) by the Government of Portugal (see more at www.lupadesign.pt).