Born 1940 · Portugal
APE 2025 · Winner
Title translated by AI:“The Unwritten Autobiography of Martha Freud”
Teolinda Gersão · 84 when first published
Novel · 413 pages · Historical, Love
AI-generated summary:Drawing on the letters Martha Bernays and Sigmund Freud exchanged during their engagement, from 1882 to 1886, the novel gives a voice to the woman long remembered only as Freud's wife.
APE 2022 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Júlia Mann's Return to Paraty”
Teolinda Gersão · 81 when first published
Novella · 139 pages · Historical
AI-generated summary:Three linked novellas about real lives: the bond between Freud and Thomas Mann, and Júlia Mann, the Brazilian-born mother of Thomas and Heinrich Mann, looked down on in Germany for being of mixed race and South American.
APE 2012 · Shortlist
A Cidade de Ulisses
Teolinda Gersão · 71 when first published
Novel · 197 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:Two people meet and fall in love in Lisbon, and their affair turns into a love story with the city itself, ranging over myth and history, literature and painting, past and present.