Born 1958 · Portugal
APE 2022 · Winner
Title translated by AI:“Around the World in Twenty and a Half Days”
Julieta Monginho · 63 when first published
Novel · 177 pages · Family, Coming of age
AI-generated summary:Leo, a child weighed down by an unloving family, decides to run away for good, no longer content with visiting the painted dog Puck at Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum or slipping off to the nearby windmill.
APE 2019 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“A Wall in the Middle of the Road”
Julieta Monginho · 60 when first published
Novel · 245 pages · Migration
AI-generated summary:Refugees who have survived the sea crossing find a wall barring their way into Europe, and in the camps that grow beside it, volunteers from many countries arrive to help.
APE 2009 · Winner
Title translated by AI:“The Third Mother”
Julieta Monginho · 50 when first published
Novel · 276 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:The people around Rosalina, among them a poet brother, a rebellious daughter and a granddaughter who loves her dearly, piece together her life of loneliness, love and loss from girlhood to her final years.