Isabel Lopes
Isabel Lopes was born in 1961 and gained her degree in Communication at l’Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She has been a journalist with the weekly Expresso since 1992 and mainly publishes articles for Única, the culture supplement of the paper. Besides being an animal rights activist and author, she coordinates the succesful project on the Expresso website called "O Cantinho do Smith".
Updated: 11 August 2009
With a small group of fans, the Portuguese Nobel prizewinner for Literature journeys in the footsteps of the main character of his latest novel “The Elephant’s Journey”. Salomon, the pachyderme protagonist, travelled from Lisbon to Vienna in the 16th century. The three day tour in a minibus tour with José Saramago crosses Portugal from Lisbon to Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo.