Born 1942 · Brazil
Jabuti 2020 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Letter to the Mad Queen”
Maria Valéria Rezende · 77 when first published
Novel · 144 pages · Historical, Politics
AI-generated summary:In 1789 a woman shut away in a convent retreat in Olinda writes letters to Portugal's queen, Maria I, describing what colonial officials do in her name to women and the enslaved.
Jabuti 2017 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Other Songs”
Maria Valéria Rezende · 74 when first published
Novel · 152 pages · Politics
AI-generated summary:On a long bus ride a teacher recalls the years she spent in a remote village in Paraíba under the dictatorship, and the wanderings that led her there.
Jabuti 2015 · Winner
Title translated by AI:“Forty Days”
Maria Valéria Rezende · 72 when first published
Novel · 245 pages · Migration, Family
AI-generated summary:Uprooted from the north-east by her daughter and set down in Porto Alegre, a retired schoolteacher walks out to search for a missing young man and stays away for weeks.