Ana Cristina Silva
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Ana Cristina Silva | |
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| Born | |
| Occupation | Psychologist |
| Known for | As a novelist |
| Notable work | Rei do Monte Brasil; A Noite não é Eterna |
| Awards | Urbano Tavares Rodrigues award; Fernando Namora prize |
Ana Cristina Silva is a Portuguese psychologist and university lecturer, specialising in early childhood reading and writing development. She is also a prize-winning novelist.
Ana Cristina Conceição da Silva was born in 1964 in Vila Franca de Xira, just north of the Portuguese capital of Lisbon. She studied psychology at the University of Lisbon, where she obtained an undergraduate degree in psychotherapy and counselling in 1987. She then did a master's in educational psychology at the Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas, Sociais e da Vida in Alfama, Lisbon, now known as ISPA (Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada). In 1999 she obtained a doctoral scholarship to study educational psychology at the University of Minho in Braga, obtaining her PhD in 2004 on the topic of children learning to read and write.[1][2]
Career
Silva is a professor at ISPA, teaching courses on the psychology of language. She is a visiting professor at the University of Minho. Following on from her doctorate, she researches in the field of cognitive psychology and early acquisition of written language and has published technical works in peer-reviewed journals on this topic.[1][2][3]
