About us

SHANTARIN, an independent publishing house based in Lisbon, is a home of freedom and intercultural dialogue, built on the pillars of poetry, history, art, and translation.

Shantarin is also the medieval place name for a city in the western Iberian Peninsula, a name derived from the Arabisation of Santa Irene—Irene being the Romanised Greek word εἰρήνη (eirēnē) for peace.

In the imagined city of Shantarin, women and men from the North, the South, and the East, Jews, Christians, Moslems, speakers of several languages, lived and thrived, dreamt and created, produced and traded, contributing to the construction and prosperity of the city, in peace and freedom.
 

 

João Pedro Ruivo

Fabiana Migliozzi

Sofia Lima
publisher and managing partner publisher communication and marketing

 

 

 

Bruno Inácio

Pedro Silva

graphic designer sales