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Maria Velho da Costa

Born 1938 · Portugal

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    APE 2001 · Winner

    Irene ou o Contrato Social

    Title translated by AI:“Irene, or the Social Contract”

    Maria Velho da Costa · 62 when first published

    Novel · 218 pages

    AI-generated summary:In Lisbon in the last years of the twentieth century, an old woman called Irene, whose figure recalls the writer Irene Lisboa, lives among people such as Orlando, a young mixed-race graffiti artist.