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Dua Lipa Launches Library for Banned and Censored Books in Portugal Story

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It features a curated collection of 100 books that have faced censorship, public challenges, or outright bans 

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Holder of a Book Club, the singer Dua Lipa and the historic Portuguese bookstore Lello, in Porto, have just joined forces to launch, this Saturday, the Manifesto Library. This is the first physical (and permanent) incarnation of the Lipa Service95 Book Club. Dedicated to literature that challenges power, censorship and dominant social narratives (of works banished by the extreme right throughout the world), the library aims to defend intellectua…

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The renowned singer Dua Lipa has taken a fundamental step in her cultural activism by inaugurating the “Manifest Library”. This new space is permanently located within the prestigious Lello Bookstore, located in Porto, Portugal. Therefore, the artist consolidates her facet as a literary prescriber after the success of her reading club Service95. The project is born with the firm aim of protecting those stories that, in various global contexts, h…

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The book "Olhos Důágua", released in 2014 by Conceição Evaristo, 79, was chosen as the first work to be made available in the Manifesta Library, in the bookstore Lello, in Portugal. The space was idealized in partnership with singer Dua Lipa, 30, through the Service95, club of the diva pop book. Read More Two Lipa shows pictures of the honeymoon with Callum Turner in Italy; see In the midst of kisses, Two Lipa and Callum Turner know Fontana di T…

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Buenos Aires, 27 June (NA) - British-Albanian singer Dua Lipa expanded her facet as a cultural promoter with the launch of The Manifesto Library, a library dedicated to banned or censored books that opened its doors this Saturday in the historic Livraria Lello, in the city of Porto. The new space will gather a selection of 100 works that, in different countries and historical moments, were subject to censorship or restrictions for addressing top…

The singer Dua Lipa opens a library in Porto, Portugal (17) in this week's week. The space of contemporary books, some of them banned or censored. According to the singer, s o t tulos who "defied power and continue to provoke reflection on freedom, identity, memory and critical thinking". Read more (06/27/2026)

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Jornal Expresso broke the news in Portugal on Friday, June 26, 2026.
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