Photo: Maggie Hardie/REX / TT (2004)
Melo, Patrícia
- Country/Region:
- Brazil
- Genres:
- Miscellaneous prose, Crime literature
The Brazilian dramaturge, journalist and author Patrícia Melo is an internationally renowned member of a generation of urban authors that emerged in Brazil in the 1990s. Her crime novels, informed by sex and violence and set in the favelas, Brazil’s urban slums, are especially acclaimed. She researches her stories by interviewing prison inmates and people who live in the slums.
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