Anajá Caetano

Anajá Caetano was an Afro-Brazilian writer who wrote about slavery, religion and discrimination. Caetano was the first woman to write a novel in 20th-century Brazil.

Biography Caetano was born in São Sebastião do Paraíso in Brazil. She was of Angolan descent, specifically of the Chokwe people.

Her book Negra Efigênia, paixão do senhor branco was published in 1966. It was the first novel written and published by a woman in Brazil in the 20th century. The novel, set in the 19th century, examines the life of Iphigenia, an enslaved woman who is kidnapped by a white farmer to be his wife.