Vanessa Barbara

Vanessa Barbara (born June 14, 1982) is a Brazilian journalist and author. She is a columnist for the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo, having also written for the magazine piauí and the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo. Her articles are also featured in the International New York Times.[1]

Vanessa Barbara
Born (1982-06-14) 14 June 1982
São Paulo, Brazil
OccupationAuthor
LanguagePortuguese
NationalityBrazilian
GenreFiction, journalism
Website
www.hortifruti.org

Barbara won the 2009 Jabuti Prize in Journalism for her work O Livro Amarelo do Terminal, about the Tietê Bus Terminal. She was shortlisted for the São Paulo Prize for Literature in 2008 for her debut book O Verão do Chibo. She was also listed by Granta among the Best of Young Brazilian Novelists in 2012.

Works
  • 2008 - O Verão do Chibo (novel, with Emilio Fraia) - Ed. Alfaguara
  • 2009 - O livro amarelo do Terminal (news story) - Ed. Cosac Naify
  • 2010 - Endrigo, O Escavador de Umbigos (children's book, with Andrés Sandoval) - Ed. 34
  • 2012 - A máquina de Goldberg (graphic novel, with Fido Nesti) - Companhia das Letras
  • 2013 - Noites de alface (novel) - Ed. Alfaguara
  • 2015 - Operação Impensável - Ed. Intrínseca[2]

Awards and recognitions
gollark: So inform them, don't force them to not do things.
gollark: I mean, our government does that for some stuff (drugs) and it's quite bad.
gollark: Giving governments the power to stop people who want to from doing things to themselves *at all* is somewhat abusable and problematic.
gollark: > @a rustian spy why yes?In order to not restrict freedom and in order to not have some government department decide what things are Clearly Bad™.
gollark: I mean, we have mental hospitals and mandatory thingying into them.

References
  1. "New York Times terá página de opinião com 29 autores de diferentes nacionalidades". Folha de S.Paulo. 7 October 2013. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
  2. "Vanessa Barbara lança 'Operação Impensável', livro sobre amor, traição e guerra - Cultura - Estadão". Estadão (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2017-04-09.
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