Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida
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.
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Tharps, Lori L. (Mar 17, 2020). "For Black and Mixed-Race Women, Hair and Identity Are Tangled Together". The New York Times. Retrieved Aug 21, 2020.
- ^ "Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida". Disquiet International. Retrieved Aug 21, 2020.
- ^ Felicelli, Anita (23 April 2020). "On Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida's "That Hair"". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved Aug 21, 2020.
- ^ "Prémio Literário Fundação Inês de Castro: Livro de Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida desafia a ativo exercício de interpretação".
- ^ "Prémio FEQ Edição 2019 - Fundação Eça de Queiroz". Retrieved Aug 21, 2020.
- ^ https://associacaooceanos.pt/premio-2019/
- 1982 births
- Living people
- Portuguese women novelists
- 21st-century Portuguese novelists
- 21st-century Portuguese women writers
- People from Luanda
- Angolan emigrants to Portugal
- University of Lisbon alumni