Miguel Araújo Oliveira was born in Hamburg in 1979. He is the author of several monographs featuring writers such as John Dos Passos, Günter Grass, and Ödön von Horváth. Ever since the launch of Oliveira’s collection of poetry, Sem Título, he has been considered a major figure in present-day Madeiran literature. A selection of his poems was included in several anthologies of contemporary Portuguese poets. Oliveira has been invited to teach as a professor at several universities in Lisbon.