Born 1982 · Portugal
APE 2024 · Winner
Title translated by AI:“Every Wound Is a Beauty”
Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida · 41 when first published
Novella · 55 pages · Coming of age
AI-generated summary:Maria, a little girl possessed by the need to put words on paper and burst out laughing, clashes with her godmother, who wants a quiet, ordinary child and punishes her, often cruelly, for writing at all.
APE 2022 · Shortlist
Maremoto
Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida · 39 when first published
Novel · 304 pages · War, Family
AI-generated summary:In Lisbon, Boa Morte da Silva, an old soldier who now parks cars, and a girl from Rua do Loreto become friends like a chance grandfather and granddaughter, while he writes letters to a daughter who is almost a stranger.
APE 2021 · Shortlist
Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida · 38 when first published
Novel · 89 pages · Family, Migration
AI-generated summary:Filomena, who sent her small daughter Solange from war-torn Angola to be raised by an aunt in Portugal, keeps their bond alive almost entirely by telephone, the two meeting only rarely in Luanda or Lisbon.
APE 2020 · Shortlist
A Visão das Plantas
Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida · 37 when first published
Novel · 304 pages · Historical
AI-generated summary:Captain Celestino, a former pirate who once smothered a revolt of the Africans he was shipping to Brazil, ends his days almost a saint, quietly tending a garden, in a story drawn from a passage in Raul Brandão.
APE 2019 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Luanda, Lisbon, Paradise”
Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida · 36 when first published
Novel · 229 pages · Migration, Family
AI-generated summary:Sent from Luanda to Lisbon for medical treatment, Cartola and his son Aquiles struggle with illness, debts and calls home, until they find shelter and a friend in a valley on the edge of the city.