Maria Gabriela Llansol

Life Of Spanish descent, she was born in Lisbon and received a degree in law from the University of Lisbon and then a degree in educational science. Llansol went on to operate a nursery school. In 1962, she published her first collection of short stories Os Pregos na Erva. She and her husband moved to Belgium in 1965, where she worked in a community school. Llansol was unhappy with her first two works and viewed her literary career as starting in 1977. She moved back to Portugal in the mid-1980s, settling in Sintra.

She died of cancer at the age of 76. After her death, there have been conferences in Portugal and Brazil to discuss her creations. Her work has been translated into several languages, but not initially English.

Selected works Source: Depois de os Pregos na Erva, short stories (1973) O Livro das Comunidades ("The Book of Communities") (1977) Um Falcão no Punho ("A Falcon on the Wrist"), diary (1985) Finita, diary (1987) Um Beijo Dado Mais tarde, novel (1990) received the (APE) prize for best novel Inquérito às quatro confidências, diary (1996) Amigo e Amiga ("He and She"), novel (2006) received the APE prize for best novel