Patrícia Melo

Patrícia Melo (born 1962 in São Paulo)^[1] is a Brazilian author. She has written The Killer and In Praise of Lies, among others.^[2] Her works have dealt with sex and violence in a heavily urbanized setting.^[3][4]

She made her literary debut in 1994 with Acqua Toffana, and in 2001 she won the Jabuti Prize for Literature for her novel Inferno,^[5] as well as several international awards. In 1999, she was included by Time magazine among the five best Latin American authors of the new millennium.^[6] Her works have been sold to England, France, the United States, Germany, Italy, Spain and China, among other countries.