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Carola Saavedra (born 1973) is a Chilean-born Brazilian writer.[1]

Biography and career

Saavedra was born in Santiago, but moved with her family to Brazil when she was three years old.[2] She graduated in journalism by Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro.[3] She lived in Spain, France and Germany, where she got a master's degree in communication studies.[4] She lives in Rio de Janeiro.^{[citation needed]}

Saavedra was an invited author at Festa Literária Internacional de Paraty (Flip) in 2010. In September 2018, Carola Saavedra launched her novel Com armas sonolentas in Porto Alegre.[2][5]

Works

• Com armas sonolentas (novel, Companhia das Letras, 2018)
• O inventário das coisas ausentes (novel, Companhia das Letras, 2014)
• Paisagem com dromedário (novel, Companhia das Letras, 2010)
• Flores azuis (novel, Companhia das Letras, 2008) - Published in English by Penguin Random House as "Blue Flowers" (2020), translated by Daniel Hahn[6][7]
• Toda terça (novel, Companhia das Letras, 2007)
• Do lado de fora (short stories, 7Letras, 2005)

Participation in anthologies

• Granta Magazine's The Best of Young Brazilian Novelists anthology (2012)[8]
• Geração Zero Zero (Língua Geral, 2011)
• Essa história está diferente – Dez contos para canções de Chico Buarque (Companhia das Letras, 2010)
• Escritores escritos (Editora Flâneur, 2010)
• Um homem célebre: Machado recriado (Publifolha, 2008)

Awards and nominations

• Premio APCA for Best Novel, 2008, for Flores azuis[9]
• Prêmio Rachel de Queiroz, Young Author category, 2010, for Paisagem com dromedário^{[citation needed]}

Saavedra was a runner-up for São Paulo de Literatura and Jabuti prizes.^{[citation needed]}

References

External links

• Official blog (in Portuguese)
• Video interview to ed. Saraiva
• Interview to newspaper Estado de S. Paulo

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