Miguel Araújo Oliveira was born in Hamburg, Germany, and has lived in Portugal for nearly three decades. He teaches at several universities in Lisbon. He is the author of monographs on the writers John Dos Passos, Günter Grass, and Ödön von Horváth. In addition to his academic work, Oliveira has published several works of fiction, poetry, and drama, such as "Salazar's Angels of Death," which was published as part of the fiftieth anniversary of the Carnation Revolution in 2024.