Gabriela Ruivo Trindade

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Gabriela Ruivo Trindade (* 1970 in Lisbon ) is a writer from Portugal . She lives in London .

Life

Trindade was born in Lisbon, but her parents were both from the city of Estremoz in the Alentejo region . As a schoolgirl, she began to write little stories.

She later studied psychology at the University of Lisbon , graduating in 1996. She then worked as a psychologist until 1999, a. a. in professional development.

In 2004 she went to London.

Trindade began to publish her large number of texts in several blogs of her own , which she still maintains to this day. These texts remained unpublished thereafter, the only two exceptions are the short story Juba , which was published by the online publisher Letrário, and the text Uma Mulher de Palavra , which the weekly newspaper Região de Leiria published and awarded in 2011.

In 2008 she started work on her first novel. She got the idea from the story of a great-great-great-uncle, which her grandmother often told her. After three years of working on the work, she sent it to a first publisher, which rejected it. However, the rejection also contained encouragement and well-founded criticism, so that she shortened and revised the novel accordingly.

In 2013 she won the Prémio LeYa , the most highly endowed literary prize in the Portuguese-speaking world for a literary work, with her novel Uma Outra Voz (German: Another Voice) . The novel tells the story of a family from Estremoz from the 19th century until today and has the Portuguese emigration to Africa long before the Portuguese colonial war as its main theme. The fictional text is combined with actual photographs of her great-uncle from Estremoz, who went to a coffee plantation in the Portuguese colony of Angola in the 1930s . At the time of the award of the 100,000 euro prize, the author was unemployed.

The publishing house LeYa published the novel in April 2014. The work also won the 2015 Portuguese PEN Club award for a first work ( primeira obra - ex-aequo ).

In 2016 the Don Quixote publishing house published her children's book A Vaca Leitora (German: The reading cow). In the same year, the German-Portuguese Oxalá publishing house in Dortmund published one of her poems in the poetry collection I. Antologia de Poetas da Diáspora , a compilation of poetry from the Portuguese diaspora .

Trindade is married and has two children. She lives in London, where she runs the online bookstore Miúda Children's Books, with a focus on Portuguese-language children's and youth literature.

Awards

  • 2013: Prémio LeYa for Uma Outra Voz
  • 2015: First prize of the PEN Club Portugal for Uma Outra Voz

Works

  • 2014: Uma Outra Voz
  • 2016: A Vaca Leitora

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Gabriela Ruivo Trindade: "O blogue de família tinha material para um livro" - "Gabriela Ruivo Trindade: 'The family blog had material for a novel'" , article in the Público newspaper from October 15, 2013, accessed on August 20, 2018
  2. ↑ a b c d Biographical notes on Gabriela Ruivo Trindade in the collection of stories Contos da Emigração - Homens Que Sofrem de Sonhos , Oxalá Editora , Dortmund 2018 ( ISBN 978-3-946277-11-8 ), p. 123
  3. ↑ Gabriela Ruivo Trindade vence Prémio Leya com um romance que junta ficção e fotografia - "Gabriela Ruivo Trindade wins Prémio Leya with a novel that combines fiction and photography" , article in the Público newspaper of October 15, 2013, accessed on August 20, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Ruivo Trindade, Gabriela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Lisbon , Portugal