Ana Paula Maia

Books on prize lists

• Assim na terra como embaixo da terra

  In English

  SaveOn Earth as It Is Beneath to read later

  International Booker 2026 · Shortlist

  On Earth as It Is Beneath

  Assim na terra como embaixo da terra

  Ana Paula Maia · 40 when first published

  Novel · 112 pages · Crime, Politics

  Translated by Padma Viswanathan

  AIAI-generated summary:In a remote penal colony about to be closed, built on ground soaked in the torture of enslaved people, the chief officer Melquíades hunts prisoners for sport on nights of the full moon.

• Enterre Seus Mortos

  In English

  SaveBury Your Dead to read later

  Jabuti 2019 · Shortlist

  Bury Your Dead

  Enterre Seus Mortos

  Ana Paula Maia · 41 when first published

  Novel · 136 pages · Crime

  AIAI-generated summary:Edgar Wilson scrapes roadkill off the highways for a living; when he finds a woman hanging in the forest and no police van can come, he takes her body to the depot freezer.