Global InformationDjaimilia Pereira de Almeida information
Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida is a Portuguese novelist and essayist of partial African descent.[1] She was born in Luanda, Angola, in 1982, but grew up near Lisbon. She completed a PhD in literary theory from the University of Lisbon.[2] She is the author of Esse Cabelo [That Hair], Ajudar a cair, Luanda, Lisboa, Paraíso, Pintado com o pé and A visão das plantas. Her writing has appeared in granta.com, Blog da Companhia das Letras, Granta Portugal, Serrote, Zum, Pessoa, Ler, Buala, and elsewhere. She is a contributor for the Brazilian magazine Quatro Cinco Um.
That Hair was released in an English translation by Eric M. B. Becker in 2020.[3][1]
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- ^ Felicelli, Anita (23 April 2020). "On Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida's "That Hair"". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved Aug 21, 2020.