Ana Maria Gonçalves
Ana Maria Gonçalves is a Brazilian writer.
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«. In 2006, she published the novel »Um defeito de cor« ; 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.
Gonçalves was writer in residence at Tulane University in 2007, at Stanford University in 2008 and at Middlebury College in 2009. As of 2019, she was living in New Orleans.
