Maria Adelaide Amaral
Portuguese Brazilian playwright, screenwriter, and novelist
About Maria Adelaide Amaral
Born 1942. Maria Adelaide Amaral is a Brazilian and Portuguese screenwriter, writer, translator, biographer, playwright and novelist.
Maria Adelaide Amaral (born 1 July 1942, in Alfena) is a Portuguese Brazilian playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. A good deal of her plays concern disaffected urban professionals. She has been classed as one of the two major women playwrights of Brazil, the other being Leilah Assunção.
In 1994, Maria Adelaide Amaral biographed the Brazilian comedian Dercy Gonçalves. The book was titled Dercy de Cabo a Rabo. In 2012, Amaral adapted this book into the miniseries Dercy de Verdade.
Despite her work as writer, she is perhaps best known to the public as an author of telenovelas, including the 2010 remake of Ti Ti Ti.
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Portuguese Brazilian playwright, screenwriter, and novelist
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Maria Adelaide Amaral was born on 1 July 1942 in Alfena.
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Maria Adelaide Amaral is a screenwriter, writer, translator, biographer, playwright and novelist.
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Maria Adelaide Amaral is Brazilian and Portuguese.
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