Ana Miranda is a Brazilian poet and novelist born in

Fortaleza Fortaleza (, locally , Portuguese for ''Fortress'') is the state capital of Ceará, located in Northeastern Brazil. It belongs to the Metropolitan mesoregion of Fortaleza and microregion of Fortaleza. It is Brazil's 5th largest city and the t ...

Ceará Ceará (, pronounced locally as or ) is one of the 26 states of Brazil, located in the northeastern part of the country, on the Atlantic coast. It is the eighth-largest Brazilian State by population and the 17th by area. It is also one of the ...

in 1951. She grew up in Brasilia and has lived in

Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a b ...

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.

Film adaptions

The film ''

Desmundo ''Desmundo'' is a 2002 Brazilian drama film by Alain Fresnot, based on the novel of the same name by Ana Miranda. The film is set in 1570, a period when orphan Portuguese girls were sent to marry the settlers' sons. This was done to prevent the P ...

'' by

Alain Fresnot Alain Fresnot (born June 6, 1951) is a French-born Brazilian film director, editor and producer. Born in Paris, his family came to Brazil in 1957 to live in Campinas due to the Algerian War. His family moved to São Paulo where he attended on ci ...

is an adaption of her novel of the same name.

External links

Hope College

References

1951 births Living people Brazilian women novelists 20th-century Brazilian novelists 20th-century Brazilian women writers 21st-century Brazilian novelists 21st-century Brazilian women writers {{Brazil-writer-stub