Isabela Figueiredo

Isabela Figueiredo was born in Lourenço Marques, Mozambique, now Maputo, in 1963, the daughter of Portuguese parents from the central-western region of Portugal. After Mozambique's independence in 1975, she moved to Portugal. She graduated in Modern Languages ​​and Literatures, specializing in Portuguese Studies, from the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at the Nova University of Lisbon. She specialized in Women's Studies at the Open University. She worked as a journalist at... Daily News between 1988 and 1994, where she was also the coordinator of the supplement. DN YoungShe was a high school Portuguese teacher. She wrote A story is like saying..., a novel that received the first prize at the Portuguese Arts and Ideas Exhibition, Notebook of Colonial Memories, whose French edition was a finalist for the Femina Foreign Prize, and The Fat One, a work that received the Urbano Tavares Rodrigues Literary Prize. These two works achieved great success with the public and critics, especially in Portugal and Brazil, and are constantly reprinted. He writes regularly for his blog. New World (http://novomundoperfeito.blogspot.com).