Joselia Aguiar is a Brazilian writer. She was born in

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in 1978. She has a PhD in history from the

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. She worked at

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and curated the International Literary Festival of Paraty (Flip) in 2017 and 2018. Currently she is the director of the Mário de Andrade Library. Aguiar is the biographer of the Brazilian novelist,

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. She won the

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for her 2018 book ''Jorge Amado: a biography''.

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External links

Interview with Joselia Aguiar
at Asymptote Journal
Articles by Joselia Aguiar
at Revista Pesquisa FAPESP 1978 births Living people Brazilian biographers Brazilian women biographers People from Salvador, Bahia 21st-century Brazilian women writers 21st-century Brazilian writers {{Brazil-writer-stub