Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida

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Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida is a Portuguese novelist and essayist of partial African descent.[1] She was born in Luanda, Angola, in 1982, but grew up near Lisbon. She completed a PhD in literary theory from the University of Lisbon.[2] She is the author of Esse Cabelo [That Hair], Ajudar a cair, Luanda, Lisboa, Paraíso, Pintado com o pé and A visão das plantas. Her writing has appeared in granta.com, Blog da Companhia das Letras, Granta Portugal, Serrote, Zum, Pessoa, Ler, Buala, and elsewhere. She is a contributor for the Brazilian magazine Quatro Cinco Um.

That Hair was released in an English translation by Eric M. B. Becker in 2020.[3][1]

Awards[]

Luanda, Lisboa, Paraíso was awarded the Prémio Literário Fundação Inês de Castro, 2018;[4] the Prémio Literário Fundação Eça de Queiroz, 2019;[5] and the Prêmio Oceanos, 2019.[6]

Books[]

  • 2015, Esse Cabelo. Teorema. ISBN 9789724750385.
  • 2017, Esse Cabelo. Leya. ISBN 9788544105221.
  • 2017, Ajudar a cair. Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos. ISBN 9789898838919.
  • 2018, Luanda, Lisboa, Paraíso. Companhia das Letras. ISBN 9789896655914.
  • 2019, Luanda, Lisboa, Paraíso. Companhia das Letras / Brazil. ISBN 9788535932690.
  • 2019, Pintado com o pé. Relógio D’Água Editores. ISBN 9789896419172.
  • 2019, A Visão das Plantas. Relógio D'Água Editores. ISBN 9789896419752.

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