Sônia Coutinho

Sônia Coutinho (1939 – August 24, 2013)

The daughter of Nathan Coutinho, a poet,

In 1994, she published the critical study Rainhas do Crime Otica Feminina no Romance Policial (Queens of Crime: the Female point-of-view in the detective novel).

Selected works Sources: Do herói inútil: (On the useless hero), short stories (1966) Nascimento de uma mulher (Birth of a women), short stories (1971) Uma certa felicidade (A certain happiness) (1979) O jogo de Ifá (The game of Ifá), novel (1980) O último verão de Copacabana (The last Copacabana summer), short stories (1985) Atire em Sofia (Shoot Sofia), novel (1989) O Caso Alice (The Alice file), novel(1991) Os Seios de Pandora (Pandora's breasts), novel (1998), won the Prêmio Jabuti in 1999 Ovelha Negra e Amiga Loura (Black sheep and blond friend), short stories (2006)