Ana Cristina Silva

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Ana Cristina Conceição da Silva (born November 14, 1964 in Vila Franca de Xira ) is a writer and university lecturer from Portugal . She lives in her hometown Vila Franca de Xira near the capital Lisbon , where she teaches full-time.

Life

Silva studied psychology at the University of Lisbon , where she obtained a first licentiate degree in psychotherapy and counseling in 1987 . At the Lisbon ISPA ( Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas, Sociais e da Vida ) followed in 1992 the master's degree in educational psychology.

With a doctoral scholarship, she studied from October 1999 to August 2001 at the University of Minho with a successful doctorate ( Ph.D. ) in the field of educational psychology.

Since 1998 she has published in specialist journals and with her own scientific publications at home and abroad, mostly on the subject of educational psychology and child psychology, later also increasingly on cognitive psychology and related topics in the fields of linguistics and language .

She teaches at ISPA in Lisbon and is visiting professor at the University of Minho in Braga.

In parallel to her scientific work, Silva also developed literary activities. She published her first novel in 2002 ( Mariana, Todas as Cartas ). A large number of publications followed. With As Fogueiras da Inquisição she turned increasingly to historical topics from 2008 onwards.

Her novel Cartas Vermelhas was shortlisted for the Prémio Fernando Namora literary prize in 2010 and was also one of the books of the year in the weekly Expresso . Her novel Rei do Monte Brasil won the Prémio Urbano Tavares Rodrigues literary prize in 2012 and made it into the final selection of the SPA / RTP and Prémio Fernando Namora literary prizes .

After she made it into the final selection for the Prémio Fernando Namora again in 2013 with A Segunda Morte de Ana Carenina , she finally won the award in 2017 with A Noite not É Eterna .

Since 2015 she has also been writing regular columns for the Portuguese-language newspaper Portugal Post, which is published in Germany .

In 2019 her novel A Mulher Transparente was published by Oxalá in a German translation under the title “Die gläserne Frau”.

Works

  • 2002: Mariana, Todas as Cartas
  • 2003: A Mulher Transparente
  • 2005: Bela
  • 2006: À Meia Luz
  • 2008: As Fogueiras da Inquisição
  • 2009: A Dama Negra da Ilha dos Escravos
  • 2010: Crónica do Rei-Poeta Al-Um'Tamid
  • 2010: Cartas Vermelhas (Book of the Year in the Expresso, finalist Prémio Fernando Namora)
  • 2012: Rei do Monte Brasil (Prémio Urbano Tavares Rodrigues, Finalist Prémio SPA / RTP)
  • 2013: A Segunda Morte de Ana Carenina (finalist Prémio Fernando Namora)
  • 2016: A Noite haben É Eterna (Prémio Fernando Namora)
  • 2019: Die Gläserne Frau (German translation by A Mulher Transparente )

In addition to these works of fiction , she is the author and co-author of four books and over 50 specialist articles in psychological-pedagogical specialist literature .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry Ana Cristina Silvas (port.) On the official website for science and research DeGóis , accessed on August 17, 2018
  2. ^ Entry as a teacher at the University of Minho , accessed August 17, 2018
  3. ↑ Biographical notes on Ana Cristina Silva in the collection of stories Contos da Emigração - Homens Que Sofrem de Sonhos , Oxalá Editora , Dortmund 2018 ( ISBN 978-3-946277-11-8 ), p. 122
  4. ↑ German-language interview with Ana Cristina Silva from the Portugal Post newspaper , accessed on August 17, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Silva, Ana Cristina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Conceição da Silva, Ana Cristina (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese psychologist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Vila Franca de Xira , Portugal