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Career

She holds a master's degree in Contemporary Economic and Social History from the Faculty of Letters at the University of Coimbra, a postgraduate course in Documentary Science/Library Science, and has extensive experience as an interpreter and translator of several European languages, maintaining particular contact with the German language.

She was a professor and senior technician of the Ministry of Education and author of several cultural projects, namely Góisarte, which she created in 1997 and which became a hallmark of the municipality of Góis. She has lived for more than 20 years in Lousã, where she founded and directs the cultural cooperative Arte-Via. In 2014 she celebrated 25 years of literary writing with the novel "O Cassador de Muros"—a "warning to the walls that exist and have robbed the future of generations". [1]

She was curator of the International Literary Festival of the Interior (Portugal)—Words of Fire, and participated in various international literary festivals: Mundo de Sal, Cabo Verde [14]; Goa Arts and Literature Festival (GALF), India [15]; Bookworm Literary Festival, Beijing; Flipoços, Brazil. [16]

Writing

Her body of work is diverse, having authored several books ranging from fiction to historical research.

In 2009 she wrote, "Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo. Os anos da Juventude Universitária Católica Feminina (1952-1956)", which was the first investigative work on the former Portuguese Prime Minister published since her death. [5]

In August 2015 Amaral won the International Prize "Cidade de Araçatuba"[6] in São Paulo, Brazil with the short story, "Mulheres de Água".

She presented her work at the Russian National Library in Moscow and St. Petersburg, as well as at the Lithuanian National Library in Vilnius in June 2017, and in São Paulo, Brazil [11] in March 2018.

"O Diretor", published in 2018, is the first volume of the trilogy "Mãe Nossa", dedicated to the earth, with subsequent volumes of the trilogy being titled "Gelos" and "Desertos". [13] "Gelos", the second volume of the trilogy, was released in 2020 at the Book Fair in Lisbon. Her literary work was further presented at Casa de Portugal in São Paulo with a particular focus on the Brazilian edition of the novel "O Diretor".

Chasing Walls", the English version of "O Cassador de Muros", was presented at the Bookworm Literary Festival in Beijing in 2019 [9] [10] and will soon be translated into Russian. [12].

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