Andréa del Fuego

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Andréa del Fuego (born in 1975 in São Paulo as Andréa Fátima dos Santos ) is a Brazilian writer.

Life

Andréa Fátima dos Santos adopted a pseudonym at the beginning of her journalistic work , which she borrowed from Luz del Fuego . Del Fuego initially worked on readers' questions on sex topics for the radio station 89 FM in São Paulo and wrote glosses. She is a literary blogger, journalist, children's book author. Her first volume of short stories, Minto enquanto posso , was published in 2004. In 2011, she received the José Saramago Prémio for her first novel Os Malaquias ( Siblings of Water ) . Eberhard Geisler called Geschwister des Wasser a novel "of world class". She lives in Sumaré , a district of Sao Paulo, where she visited Jens Jessen on the occasion of the Frankfurt Book Fair 2013.

Works (selection)

  • As miniaturas . 2013.
  • Historias femininas . 2011.
  • Irmãs de pelúcia . 2010. Children's book.
  • Os malaquias . 2010.
    • Siblings of the water . Translated from the Portuguese by Marianne Gareis. Hanser, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-446-24331-6 .
  • Nego fogo . 2009.
  • Sociedade da Caveira de Cristal . 2008. Book for young people.
  • Engano seu . 2007.
  • Nego tudo . 2005.

Web links

Commons : Andréa del Fuego  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Luz del Fuego in the Portuguese Wikipedia pt: Luz del Fuego
  2. ↑ Elmar Krekeler: Mother's Spirit in the Light Bulb , Die Literäre Welt , October 5, 2013, p. 5
  3. ↑ Eberhard Geisler: Sleepwalking awake. New storytelling from Brazil - the novel “Siblings of Water” by Andréa del Fuego . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung of August 21, 2013, p. 23.
  4. ↑ Zeit Literature No. 41, September 2013, p. 10.
personal data
SURNAME Fuego, Andréa del
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH São Paulo