Carola Saavedra
{{short description|Brazilian writer}}
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| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1973}}
| birth_place= Santiago, Chile
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| education = Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro
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| website = {{Official|http://carolasaavedra.wordpress.com}}
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Carola Saavedra (born 1973) is a Chilean-born Brazilian writer.{{Cite web|url=http://revistatrip.uol.com.br/tpm/carola-saavedra|title=Carola Saavedra - Tpm|website=Trip|access-date=2016-03-29}}
Biography and career
Saavedra was born in Santiago, but moved with her family to Brazil when she was three years old. She graduated in journalism by Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro.{{Cite web|title=Chicas que escrevem: Carola Saavedra|url=https://catarinas.info/colunas/chicas-que-escrevem-carola-saavedra/|access-date=2020-07-21|website=Portal Catarinas|language=pt-BR}} She lived in Spain, France and Germany, where she got a master's degree in communication studies. She lives in Rio de Janeiro.{{fact|date=May 2020}}
Saavedra was an invited author at Festa Literária Internacional de Paraty (Flip) in 2010. In September 2018, Carola Saavedra launched her novel Com armas sonolentas in Porto Alegre.{{Cite news|url=https://gauchazh.clicrbs.com.br/cultura-e-lazer/livros/noticia/2018/09/carola-saavedra-lanca-em-porto-alegre-seu-novo-romance-com-armas-sonolentas-cjmjl5vje003201rx4dv5w8yt.html|title=Carola Saavedra lança em Porto Alegre seu novo romance, "Com Armas Sonolentas"|work=GaúchaZH|access-date=2018-10-10|language=pt-BR}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.jornaldocomercio.com/_conteudo/cultura/2018/09/649644-escritora-chilena-lanca-livro-em-porto-alegre-nesta-quarta.html|title=Escritora chilena lança livro em Porto Alegre nesta quarta|last=Comércio|first=Jornal do|work=Jornal do Comércio|access-date=2018-10-10|language=pt-br}}
Works
- Do lado de fora (short stories, 7Letras, 2005)
- Toda terça (novel, Companhia das Letras, 2007)
- Flores azuis (novel, Companhia das Letras, 2008) - Published in English by Penguin Random House as "Blue Flowers" (2020), translated by Daniel Hahn{{Cite web|url=https://www.oprahmag.com/entertainment/books/a30460735/carola-saavedras-blue-flowers-review/|title=Carola Saavedra's Blue Flowers is a Sexy Story Told Through Letters|website=The Oprah Magazine|language=en-US|access-date=2020-07-06}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/314178/blue-flowers-by-carola-saavedra//|title=Blue Flowers by Carola Saavedra|website=Penguin Random House|language=en-US|access-date=2020-07-06}}
- Paisagem com dromedário (novel, Companhia das Letras, 2010)
- O inventário das coisas ausentes (novel, Companhia das Letras, 2014)
- Com armas sonolentas (novel, Companhia das Letras, 2018)
= Participation in anthologies =
- Um homem célebre: Machado recriado (Publifolha, 2008)
- Escritores escritos (Editora Flâneur, 2010)
- Essa história está diferente – Dez contos para canções de Chico Buarque (Companhia das Letras, 2010)
- Geração Zero Zero (Língua Geral, 2011)
- Granta Magazine's The Best of Young Brazilian Novelists anthology (2012){{Cite web|url=http://granta.com/contributor/Carola-Saavedra/|title=Carola Saavedra|website=Granta Magazine|language=en-US|access-date=2016-03-29}}
Awards and nominations
- Premio APCA for Best Novel, 2008, for Flores azuis{{Cite web|title=APCA divulga seleção com os melhores artistas de 2008 - Cultura|url=https://cultura.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,apca-divulga-selecao-com-os-melhores-artistas-de-2008,291144|access-date=2020-07-21|website=Estadão|language=pt-BR}}
- Prêmio Rachel de Queiroz, Young Author category, 2010, for Paisagem com dromedário{{fact|date=May 2020}}
Saavedra was a runner-up for São Paulo de Literatura and Jabuti prizes.{{fact|date=May 2020}}
References
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External links
- [http://carolasaavedra.wordpress.com Official blog (in Portuguese)]
- [http://vimeo.com/13894892 Video interview to ed. Saraiva]
- [https://archive.today/20130101140901/http://www.estadao.com.br/estadaodehoje/20100504/not_imp546486,0.php Interview to newspaper Estado de S. Paulo]
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Category:Brazilian women journalists
Category:Brazilian women novelists
Category:21st-century Brazilian novelists
Category:Chilean emigrants to Brazil
Category:Chilean women writers
Category:Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro alumni
Category:Writers from Rio de Janeiro (city)