Ana Miranda
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| birth_name = Ana Maria Nóbrega Miranda
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1951|8|19}}
| birth_place = Fortaleza, Brazil
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| nationality = Brazilian
| occupation = Poet and novelist
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| notable_works = A Boca do Inferno
| signature = Ana Miranda signature.svg
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Ana Miranda (born August 19, 1951) is a Brazilian poet and novelist.
Biography
She was born in Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil on August 19, 1951. She grew up in Brasília and has lived in Rio de Janeiro since 1969. Her main work of note has been historical, including her award-winning 1989 novel A Boca do Inferno, which was published in English in 1991. Many of her other works have concerned the conflicts of women wanting to have careers and families.{{Cite web |last=Harrison |first=Marguerite |title=Miranda, Ana |url=http://www.hope.edu/latinamerican/miranda.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051126190217/http://www.hope.edu/latinamerican/miranda.html |archive-date=November 26, 2005 |access-date=October 20, 2024 |website=hope.edu}}
Film adaptions
The film Desmundo by Alain Fresnot is an adaption of her novel of the same name.
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20051126190217/http://www.hope.edu/latinamerican/miranda.html Hope College]
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Category:People from Fortaleza
Category:Brazilian women novelists
Category:20th-century Brazilian novelists
Category:20th-century Brazilian women writers
Category:21st-century Brazilian novelists
Category:21st-century Brazilian women writers
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