Cristina Torrão

Cristina Torrão (born July 16, 1965 in Castelo de Paiva ) is a Portuguese writer. She lives in the north German Hanseatic city of Stade . Historical novels are a focus of her works.

Life

Torrão studied English and German language and literature at the University of Porto . She then worked for a time for the public service broadcaster Radiodifusão Portuguesa (RDP) in the region of northern Portugal.

In 1992 she went to Hamburg . She taught Portuguese as a foreign language for locals at various institutions there , but also as a mother tongue for children of Portuguese parents in Germany .

Later she went to Stade with her husband Horst Neumann, where she gave up her job and has lived as a writer ever since.

In July 2007, her novel A Moura eo Cruzado won the O meu primeiro best-seller literary award in Portugal , which is awarded in cooperation with the Modelo-Continente supermarket chain, Edições Asa publisher and Visão magazine . She then revised the novel and it was republished under the title A Cruz de Esmeraldas . Since then, various other books have been published, mostly with reference to people from the history of Portugal .

Works

• 2007: A Moura eo Cruzado (Edições Asa)
• 2008: Afonso Henriques, o Homem (Ésquilo)
• 2009: A Cruz de Esmeraldas (Ésquilo, revised new version of her novel A Moura eo Cruzado )
• 2010: D. Dinis, a quem chamaram o Lavrador (Ésquilo)
• 2014: Os Segredos da Jacinta (Poética Edições)
• 2016: Tú És a Única Pessoa (Oxalá Editora)
• 2018: Memórias de Dona Teresa (Poética Edições)

Web links

• Entry on Cristina Torrão in the Portal da Literatura

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biographical notes on Cristina Torrão in the collection of stories Contos da Emigração - Homens Que Sofrem de Sonhos , Oxalá Editora , Dortmund 2018 ( ISBN 978-3-946277-11-8 ), p. 124
2. ↑ Cristina Torrãos biography in Portal da Literatura , accessed on August 21, 2018