Alice Vieira is a Portuguese

Portugal

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Children's literature

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Biography

She graduated from the University of Lisbon with a thesis about Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60...

's theatre. She worked as a teacher and as a journalist before devoting all her time to writing books for children. She has published already more than three dozen titles, and won several prestigious awards in Portugal in the field of literature for children and teenagers.

Juvenile Literature

• 1979 - Rosa, Minha Irmã Rosa
• 1979 - Paulina ao Piano
• 1980 - Lote 12 - 2º Frente
• 1982 - Chocolate à Chuva
• 1981 - A Espada do Rei Afonso
• 1983 - Este Rei que eu Escolhi
• 1984 - Graças e Desgraças na Corte de El Rei Tadinho
• 1985 - Águas de Verão
• 1986 - Flor de Mel
• 1987 - Viagem à Roda do meu Nome
• 1988 - Às Dez a Porta Fecha
• 1990 - Úrsula, a Maior
• 1990 - Os Olhos de Ana Marta
• 1991 - Promontório da Lua
• 1995 - Caderno de Agosto
• 1997 - Se Perguntarem por mim, Digam que Voei

Other works

• 1986 - De que são Feitos os Sonhos
• 1988 - As Mãos de Lam Seng
• 1988 - O que Sabem os Pássaros
• 1988 - As Árvores que Ninguém Separa
• 1988 - Um Estranho Baralho de Asas
• 1988 - O Tempo da Promessa
• 1990 - Macau: da Lenda à História
• 1991 - Corre, Corre, Cabacinha
• 1991 - Um Ladrão debaixo da Cama
• 1991 - Fita, Pente e Espelho
• 1991 - A Adivinha do Rei
• 1992 - Rato do Campo, Rato da Cidade
• 1992 - Periquinho e Periquinha
• 1992 - Maria das Silvas
• 1993 - As Três Fiandeiras
• 1993 - A Bela Moura
• 1994 - O Pássaro Verde
• 1994 - O Coelho Branquinho
• 1994 - Eu Bem Vi Nascer o Sol
• 1997 - Praias de Portugal

Awards

• 1979 - Prémio de Literatura Infantil Ano Internacional da Criança, for Rosa, Minha Irmã Rosa.
• 1983 - Prémio Calouste Gulbenkian
  Calouste Gulbenkian
  Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian was an Armenian businessman and philanthropist. He played a major role in making the petroleum reserves of the Middle East available to Western development...
  
  de Literatura Infantil, for Este Rei que Eu Escolhi.
• 1994 - Prémio Gulbenkian, for her overall work.