Contributor

Lúcia Bettencourt

Contributor

Lúcia Bettencourt

Brazil

A native of Rio de Janeiro, Lúcia Bettencourt is one of the most innovative and dynamic writers in Brazil today. Her first book, the highly acclaimed collection A secretária de Borges, won the SESC Prize for Literature and quickly became one of the publisher’s bestselling titles; it is currently in its second edition....

A subsequent work, “A cicatriz da Olímpia” (Olympia’s Scar), won the inaugural Osman Lins Short Story Contest and appeared in a compilation of notable contemporary Brazilian fiction. Ms. Bettencourt was also awarded the prestigious Josué Guimarães Prize for three as-yet unpublished stories. Her second collection, Linha de sombra (Shadow Line), was recently released and has received numerous favorable reviews.

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Lúcia Bettencourt

Lúcia Bettencourt

Articles by Lúcia Bettencourt

We Have to Love Brazil: A FLIP Diary

Marcel Proust’s Last Three Days

Through the Looking Glass, and What the Author Saw after Being Translated

Borges’s Secretary