Filipa Fonseca Silva was born in Barreiro in 1979. With a degree in Social and Cultural Communication from the Catholic University, she preferred advertising to journalism, having worked as an advertising and brand creator.

In 2011 she began her literary career with “Thirty Something (Nothing’s How We Dreamed It Would Be”, the English version of which made her the only Portuguese author to reach Amazon’s Top 100. Since then, she has published five more novels, two humor books and countless chronicles, short stories and essays. Some of her books have been translated into several languages and two of the most recent, “O Elevador” and “E Se Eu Morrer Amanhã?” were finalists for the Bertrand Book of the Year and will be adapted into a movie.

In March 2023, she founded the Clube das Mulheres Escritoras (Women Writers’ Club), a mutual support platform for Portuguese authors, which aims to promote and celebrate Portuguese literature written by women.