Ana Margarida de Carvalho
portugues writer and journalist
Ana Margarida Taborda Duarte Martins de Carvalho (born 1969 in Lisbon) is a Portuguese writer and journalist. She is the only Portuguese writer to be awarded with the Grande Prémio da Associação Portuguesa de Escritores (APE/DGLB) for each of her three successive works of literary fiction; they were for two novels and a short-story collection.
Biography and work
Born in Lisbon, in 1969, her father is Portuguese writer Mário de Carvalho, Ana Margarida de Carvalho graduated in Law from the University of Lisbon School of Law.
She was awarded in seven distinct occasions for her work as a journalist, working for over 25 years at Revista Visão, a news magazine where she was both an editor and a leading reporter, as well as collaborating with a number of other cultural and news publications such as Jornal de Letras, Revista Ler, Marie Claire, Egoísta, Colóquio Letras and the television news channel SIC.
During this period, she was also a film critic for the Final Cut blog, of which she was a founder, and Revista Visão, in which she also developed an online weekly chronicle called "Conversas de Elevador" for two years. As a jury in ICA, the Portuguese Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual, she was a part of the selection process that attributed subsidies to diverse documentaries, films and scripts.
Three of her scripts (documentary and fiction) were recipient of this public subsidy, all of them placed first.
Her literary debut was in 2013 with the publication of the novel Que Importa a Fúria do Mar. It was received with critical acclaim and was awarded the most important literary prize in Portugal, promoted by the APE, Portuguese Writers Association, the Grande Prémio de Romance e Novela APE/DGLAB – 2013, as well as being a finalist for at least 3 other literary awards.
Her second novel, Não se Pode Morar nos Olhos de Um Gato, was equally distinguished with the Grande Prémio de Romance e Novela APE/DGLAB – 2016, as well as being awarded in the first edition of the literary Prémio Manuel de Boaventura in 2017. The book was also considered for the Oceanos-Prêmio de Literatura em Língua Portuguesa, a Brazilian literary award for Literature in the Portuguese Language attributed by the institute Itáu Cultural, and the Portuguese Society of Authors best book award of 2017.
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