Rita Ferro (writer)
Rita Ferro | |
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Born | Rita Maria Roquette de Quadros Ferro 26 February 1955 Lisbon, Portugal |
Other names | Rita Maria Roquette de Quadros Ferro Ochôa |
Occupation(s) | Novelist and journalist |
Rita Ferro (born 1955) is a Portuguese writer, journalist, playwright and teacher.[1]
Early life
Rita Maria Roquette de Quadros Ferro Ochôa was born on 26 February 1955 in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon, the daughter of writer and philosopher António Quadros [pt ] and Paulina Roquette Ferro. Her paternal grandmother was the writer Fernanda de Castro, and her paternal grandfather was António Ferro a writer, journalist, and politician who was associated with the repressive Estado Novo regime in the mid-20th Century. Ferro studied design, specializing in marketing. Following internships in Brazil, Spain, the USA and the United Kingdom, she taught advertising at the Instituto de Arte, Design e Empresa (Institute of Art, Design and Enterprise - IADE), which her father had founded in 1969. She also worked as an advertising writer for Reader’s Digest in Portugal and for other publishers.[2][3][4]
Writing
Ferro began her literary career in 1990, with the publication of the novel O Nó na Garganta, which sold more than 50,000 copies. Since then, she has written more than 20 novels, as well as biographies, youth literature and plays. She has been a judge for literary awards and at film festivals and has published articles in magazines and newspapers, such as Revista LER, the Portuguese edition of Marie Claire, Diário de Notícias and A Capital. She also worked on a television programme for the Portuguese national broadcaster, RTP, and has been on several radio programmes. In 2011 she published her first autobiographical novel, A menina é filha de quem? (Whose daughter is she?), which received the Portuguese PEN Club award for prose fiction in 2012.[5] Ferro also teaches courses in creative writing[6] and has written a television script and two theatrical plays.[2][3][4][7]
Publications
A list of Ferro's main publications follows:[2][7][8]
Novels
- O nó na garganta (Dom Quixote, 1990)
- O vestido de lantejoulas (Dom Quixote, 1991)
- O vento e a lua (Dom Quixote, 1992)
- Por instinto (Editorial Notícias, 2000)
- Os filhos da mãe (Dom Quixote, 2000)
- A menina dança? (Dom Quixote, 2002)
- Uma mulher não chora (Dom Quixote, 2002)
- És Meu! (Dom Quixote, 2003)
- Não me contes o fim (Dom Quixote, 2005)
- As caras da Mãe (Dom Quixote, 2006)
- Responde se és Homem (Dom Quixote, 2007)
- 13 gotas ao deitar (Oficina do Livro, 2009)
- 4 & 1 Quarto (Dom Quixote, 2009)
- Chocolate (2010)
- A menina é filha de quem? (Dom Quixote, 2011)
- Veneza pode esperar – Diário 1 (Dom Quixote, 2013) (ISBN 978-972-2054-06-5)
- A secretária de Sidónio Paes (Glaciar), 2014) (ISBN 978-989-8776-12-9)
- Só se morre uma vez – Diário 2 (Dom Quixote, 2015)
- Um amante no Porto (Dom Quixote, 2018)
- Os pássaros cantam em grego – Diário 3 (Dom Quixote, 2020)
Chronicles
- Por tudo e por nada (Dom Quixote, 2002)
- Os cromos de Rita Ferro (Dom Quixote, 2003)
- Sexo na desportiva (Dom Quixote, 2007)
Other publications
- Retrato de uma família, with Mafalda Ferro (1999)
- Desculpe lá, mãe!, with Marta Gautier (1998)
- Fotobiografia de Sebastião Alves, with Ana Vidal (2004)
- Querida menopausa, with Helena Sacadura Cabral (2005)
- As caras da Mãe (2005)
- 13 gotas ao deitar, in collaboration with Alice Vieira, Catarina Fonseca, Leonor Xavier, Luísa Beltrão and Rosa Lobato de Faria (2009)
- O falcão e a formiga
References
- ^ "Com raízes na nobreza de Goa - dn - DN". 2014-12-19. Archived from the original on 2014-12-19. Retrieved 2023-06-26.
- ^ a b c "Rita Ferro". WOOK. Retrieved 4 April 2021.
- ^ a b "Rita Ferro (n. 26-02-1955)" (PDF). Bibliotecas do Bombarral. Retrieved 4 April 2021.
- ^ a b "Escritora Rita Ferro é a convidada de setembro de "Um Livro, Um Filme"". Familacão Municipality. Retrieved 4 April 2021.
- ^ "A menina é filha de quem? de Rita Ferro vence PEN Narrativa 2012". Público. Retrieved 4 April 2021.
- ^ "Curso de escrita criativa com Rita Ferro". Viva!. Retrieved 4 April 2021.
- ^ a b "Rita Ferro". Projecto Vercial. Retrieved 4 April 2021.
- ^ "Rita Ferro". Portal da Literatura. Retrieved 4 April 2021.