Ana Maria Gonçalves

Ana Maria Gonçalves (born 1970) is a Brazilian writer.

Ana Maria Gonçalves
Born1970
Ibiá, Minas Gerais, Brazil
NationalityBrazil
Genrenovel

She was born in Ibiá, Minas Gerais. Gonçalves was a professor of English and then a publicist in São Paulo. In 2002, she decided to pursue writing full-time. Later that year she published her first novel Ao lado e à margem do que sentes por mim« ("Beside and at the edge of what you feel for me"). In 2006, she published the novel »Um defeito de cor« ("A color defect"); it received the Casa de las Américas Prize for the category Brazilian literature in 2007. In 2009, she was included in a list published by the newspaper O Globo of the best Brazilian books from the previous decade. Her short stories have been included in anthologies published in Portugal and Italy.[1]

Gonçalves was writer in residence at Tulane University in 2007, at Stanford University in 2008 and at Middlebury College in 2009.[2] As of 2019, she was living in New Orleans.[1]

References
  1. "Ana Maria Gonçalves [ Brasil ]". internationales literaturfestival berlin.
  2. "Ana Maria Gonçalves". BUALA (in Portuguese).
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