catarina gomes
AUTHOR
Photo: Daniel Rocha
Translation: Rachael McGill
catarina gomes
AUTHOR
About me
Catarina Gomes was born in Lisbon in 1975. She is the author of four non-fiction books and the novel Terrinhas, for which she received the Agustina Bessa-Luís Revelation Prize.
Catarina Gomes worked for almost 20 years as a journalist for the daily newspaper Público, receiving some of the most prestigious Portuguese journalism awards, including the Gazeta. Internationally, she was twice a finalist for the Gabriel García Marquez Journalism Prize and was awarded the King of Spain Prize for International Journalism.
«What’s it like to live in a village where many of the inhabitants never learned to read or write? When Conceição receives an unexpected letter, she has to ‘go to Beatriz’, a woman who has the skill of deciphering the code of the abc. »
«What’s it like to live in a village where many of the inhabitants never learned to read or write? When Conceição receives an unexpected letter, she has to ‘go to Beatriz’, a woman who has the skill of deciphering the code of the abc. »