Dulce Maria Cardoso is a Portuguese writer who spent her childhood in Luanda, Angola, after her parents moved there when she was an infant. Her family returned to Portugal following the Angolan War of Independence in 1975. She studied law at the University of Lisbon and worked as a lawyer before becoming a full-time writer. Read More Her first novel, Campo de Sangue, won the Grand Prize Acontece de Romance. A later novel, Violeta among the Stars, won the EU Prize for Literature, while O Chão dos Pardais won the Portuguese Pen Club Award.