Maria Adelaide Amaral

{{Short description|Portuguese Brazilian playwright, screenwriter, and novelist}}

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Maria Adelaide Amaral (born 1 July 1942, in Alfena) is a Portuguese Brazilian playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. A good deal of her plays concern disaffected urban professionals.[https://books.google.com/books?id=97NoYRx96ZAC&dq=%22Maria+Adelaide+Amaral%22&pg=PA307 The Cambridge history of Latin American literature: Brazilian ..., Volume 2 by Roberto González Echevarrı́a, pg 307] She has been classed as among the two major women playwrights of Brazil, the other being Leilah Assunção.[https://books.google.com/books?id=w0Lc79wP-40C&pg=PA32 Tentative transgressions: homosexuality, AIDS, and the theater in Brazil by Severino João Medeiros Albuquerque, pg 32]

In 1994, Maria Adelaide Amaral biographed the Brazilian comedian Dercy Gonçalves. The book was titled Dercy de Cabo a Rabo. In 2012, Amaral adapted this book into the miniseries Dercy de Verdade.{{cite news|url=http://tribunadonorte.com.br/noticia/dercy-de-cabo-a-rabo-em-livro-e-na-teve/207936

|title=Dercy de cabo a rabo em livro e na tevê (in Portuguese)

|publisher=Tribuna do Norte

|date=4 January 2012}}{{cite news|url=http://revistaquem.globo.com/Revista/Quem/0,,EMI285170-9531,00-HELOISA+PERISSE+E+FAFY+SIQUEIRA+FALAM+SOBRE+A+MINISSERIE+DERCY+DE+VERDADE.html

|title=Heloisa Perissé e Fafy Siqueira falam sobre a minissérie "Dercy de Verdade" (in Portuguese)

|publisher=Quem magazine

|date=16 December 2011}}

Despite her work as writer, she is perhaps best known to the public as an author of telenovelas, including the 2010 remake of Ti Ti Ti.[http://tititi.globo.com/Bastidores/noticia/2011/02/maria-adelaide-amaral-visita-estudio-de-ti-ti-ti.html Ti-Ti-Ti page at Rede Globo (In Portuguese)]